While Blizzard has vowed to issue a major balance patch for World of Warcraft: Forever when the retro MMO's raids launch in December, the developer certainly doesn't seem afraid of doing some tinkering under the hood in the meantime. A roundup of hotfixes published on Nov. 10 would put the full patch notes of many live-service games to shame. And we're just six days out from launch.

Perhaps the most notable change is to gold rewards for questing during the higher levels, which have been increased. While many players have yet to reach this stage yet, Blizzard has come under fire for abandoning the conversion of XP into gold once you hit max level — a change applied not long before WoW's first expansion, The Burning Crusade.

"We felt that it would be inappropriate for WoW: Forever players to be compelled to save up quests as they approach level 60 and then not turn them in until they transformed into a great profit," Blizzard explained. But this has left players at level 60 somewhat cash-strapped.

"In original WoW , only about 25% of quests in the game actually provide raw gold rewards, which led this to be a slightly more negative change than intended to gold income as you get closer to level 60," WoW: Forever 's community manager explained in another post . So Blizzard has added gold rewards to the majority of quests from level 48 onwards. "This change brings high-level quests in-line with the rest of questing in WoW: Forever , with the goal of giving players a good reason to complete those quests while leveling up to 60 and thereafter," Blizzard said.

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