User blog comment:Emptylord/Season 3 - PBE Patch Notes/@comment-4909453-20121123190743/@comment-3974211-20121123211053

It's possible they meant the growth from minions has increased (worth more gold and experience).

The queue for the PBE is, as it has been for the last week or so, one-in-one-out and moving ungodly slow. ^_^