Players report the Elwynn quest "Good Steel" now gives less XP and no money
· ForeverDB
Two players' ForeverDB addons saw the level 10 Elwynn Forest quest "Good Steel" drop from 625 XP to 320, and from 2 silver 50 copper to no money, on 8 November. Blizzard hasn't announced it.
Player reports, not confirmed by Blizzard. These numbers come from players' ForeverDB addons seeing the quest in the game, not from the client's data files and not from a Blizzard post.
Good Steel is a level 10 quest in Elwynn Forest. You pick it up from Hagar Lowe at the Eastvale Logging Camp and collect 4 Mining Tools from Jasperlode Mine. On 8 November, two players' addons (both with an account) uploaded the quest's reward twice and saw it changed from what players had turned it in for earlier.
What the addons saw
- Experience: 625 earlier, now 320.
- Money: 2 silver 50 copper earlier, now none.
Both uploads landed on the same day, 8 November, so this looks like a server-side hotfix rather than a new build. Quest rewards are handed out by Blizzard's servers, so the client's data files can't confirm the change either way. We're going on what two players saw in the game.
What we don't know
- Blizzard hasn't mentioned this quest in any post we track.
- Why it changed. It may be a tuning pass, or a fix for a reward that was set too high. (Speculation. Blizzard hasn't said, and only two players have reported it so far.)
- Whether other Eastvale Logging Camp or Jasperlode Mine quests changed with it. We only have reports for this one.
The full list of changes players' addons have seen, with the player and upload counts, is on our changes seen in game page. We'll update this if more players confirm it or Blizzard posts about it.