Zenimax posted an article which features questions submitted by the community, answered by the developers. The article focuses on Crafting, and whilst it does not necessarily provide any new information, it’s a good read for anyone who isn’t up to date with the crafting system in Elder Scrolls Online.

The article confirms that every type of crafting material can be found in the overland world of Tamriel – you don’t need to run dungeons or defeat special bosses to get your hands on rare crafting materials.

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A tweet from @TESOnline confirms that the invites for this weekend’s beta session will go out tomorrow.

.@Close27Scott The next #ESO beta event for PC/Mac will take place this coming weekend. We’ll send out invites tomorrow. Get excited!

— Elder Scrolls Online (@TESOnline) March 10, 2014

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TESOElite hosted a live  Crafting Q&A session with Creative Director Paul Sage from Zenimax Online.

The Q&A discussed various different crafting topics, such as the value of crafted gear in end game, crafting hirelings and their usefulness, research and traits, racial styles and motifs, costumes and dyes, crafting economy, inventory and bank space.

The community also asked more specific questions about different crafting professions.

We did a summary of the questions & answers and categorized them to make it all more readable for you.

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Mmorpg.com released a youtube video which discussed Craglorn, an Adventure Zone in Elder Scrolls Online. Apparently the information was leaked from a forum post which was addressed to internal beta testers. Well, the information is now out there, and speculation has begun. Adventure Zones have been advertised as ESO’s equivalent of raids: they are large group PvE encounters, but differ from “traditional raids” in a couple of ways. The developers have specifically said adventure zones will not include bosses the size of skyscraper, with a large group of players hacking at its ankles to take it down. Adventure Zones are said to be more dynamic, but apart from that almost no information has been revealed about them yet.

There is no actual video gameplay footage of Craglorn, but what we now know about Craglorn is that it’s a big zone, roughly 2/3 the size of your average normal questing zone. It’s an outdoor area with multiple public dungeons, wayshrines, landmarks and other objectives. In many ways it’s just like a normal zone – except every living thing there is badder, bigger and comes at you with an even bigger and nastier group of friends.

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Another set of beta invites have gone out. If you were a part of the last beta, you should have automatically received an invite for this beta session too. If you did not get yours yet, don’t panic. Sometimes it takes a day or two for everyone to receive their invite.

The Beta session takes place from Friday, Feb 28, 12:00pm ET – Sunday, Mar 2, 11:59pm ET.

This time the beta invites include an extra code which can be given to friends. Those who participate in this event will unlock an exclusive monkey vanity pet at launch. Also remember that this is the first beta weekend since the NDA has been lifted, so you can expect a lot of players streaming Elder Scrolls Online.

What’s more, there have been a number of changes to the game since the last Beta session. Whether the latest build will be used for this Beta session is unclear, but we’ll find out soon enough!