Any clue what this is for ?

[Winter]

doing a search in Bazaar tonight i found these

Holpa Mak Gor Foosh ....(slot:Face...ac 3, hp 2, wt 0.9, size:small,
THIS ITEM CAN BE USED IN TRADE SKILLS. class :war,clr,pal,shd,dru,mnk,rog,bst,shm,brd,ber
Race :all
slot 1, type 7)

Holpa Mak Gor Gragl....(slot:neck.. ac 4,hp 2,.. wt 1.0 size small,
THIS ITEM CAN BE USED IN TRADESKILLS.
class: war, clr, pal ,shd,dru,mnk,rog,best,shm,brd,Ber
race:all
slot 1 type 7

i have looked all over net and here too but have found no listings of this if anyone has a clue plz post.
thanks and be safe,
Winter

[Eleena Transient]

Lucy lists a full set of this, with lore on items as:

"Rank Two Anchor, Stone Studded Leather Mask"

There are 2 other Holpa items, Holpa Glub and Holpa Mlech (a pie). Both drop from Gor Taku Barkeep in Shadeweaver. If memory serves, there is a smith and tradesman ub there too. Might be something.

[Elyssanda]

AS someone who farms the lil aliens ALOT, all those Holpa things, well, they do drop fairly rarely, but they don't drop off the merchants, not from the barkeep, the smith..Merchants go poof after dying, no loot drops at all. I just sell the stuff to the Vah shir vendors. not what I'm after.

[Thorvari]

Here is a post I made from a while back from this thread:

In Shadeweaver Thicket, there is a quest with Tiamon Aroo that involves "spirit anchors", and he gives out the recipe for Tailored Shaded Hopperhide armor. This armor takes a no-rent Xakra Kel piece of armor and mates it with a matching piece of Tattered Hopperhide armor for additional stats. There is also a Shaded series of tailored armor that drops in the higher level zones.

The mystery is that in the tunnels of Shadeweaver near Pal caverns, there drops no-rent "Xakra Dat" armor that a use has never been found for. This seems like it would be used to make armor similar to the armor made from Xakra Kel. There is also Holpa Mak Gor armor that drops in the tunnels that has "Rank Two Anchor, Stone Studded Leather XXXX" as its item lore, making it seem like this might be the match piece.

One major problem with trying to solve this is that the Xakra Dat armor is a rare drop from a uncommon mob. The only mobs that drop it are on half of a day/night cycle, in a zone where you can't tell what game time it is, only have 10-12 wandering spawns, and have 3 different placeholders. On top of that, they are no-rent, so once you get a piece to drop it is hard to keep around for experimentation, and Vendors wont buy it so it doesn't stay around that way.

Xakra Dat armor drops from Shak Dratha with Capitilized names (Shak Dratha, not shak dratha) that wander the tunnels near Paludal Caverns. It does not drop from static mobs. Holpa Mak Gor armor drops from Gor Taku static mobs from the higher level end of the cave system. These mobs have slightly larger models than the static spawns at the Pal caverns end of the cave system.


I have collected a decent collection of Holpa Mak Gor armor and Claw Needles, but have not been able to get any Xakra Dat armor to drop, or if it did, it was one of the few pieces that I don't have the corresponding Holpa Mak armor for.

Also of interest is this recent post that talks about a newly discovered combine using Xakra Kel armor.