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Empress Shell "Styx"

Light Bowgun · Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

Empress Shell "Styx"

This Lunastra light bowgun resonates with Xeno'jiiva parts to help conserve ammo.

Stats

Attack
247
Affinity
10%
Rarity
8
Slots
31
Deviation
1
Special ammo
Wyvernblast

Skills

Ammo

  • Normal 1 ×3
  • Normal 2 ×2
  • Normal 3 ×1
  • Pierce 1 ×4
  • Pierce 2 ×4
  • Pierce 3 ×2
  • Spread 1 ×3
  • Sticky 1 ×2
  • Sticky 2 ×1
  • Recover 1 ×3
  • Recover 2 ×2
  • Sleep 1 ×5
  • Sleep 2 ×4
  • Exhaust 1 ×5
  • Exhaust 2 ×5
  • Water ×3 · rapid fire
  • Thunder ×3 · rapid fire
  • Dragon ×3
  • Slicing ×2
  • Tranq ×2

Upgrade path

Crafting materials

Total cost of Empress Shell "Styx": it comes from a 2-step upgrade chain, and crafting the final weapon means going through all of them. The total below sums the whole tree.

Materials total

Each material appears once, under its main source: monster, then gathering, then combining.

Dropped by monsters (7)

Quest, delivery or event (1)

Materials per step

  1. 1.Empress Shell (craft)

    Lunastra Scale+ ×4, Lunastra Horn ×3, Lunastra Mane ×3, Lunastra Gem ×1

  2. 2.Empress Shell "Styx" (upgrade)

    Research Commission Ticket ×1, Lunastra Tail ×2, Xeno'jiiva Horn ×3, Xeno'jiiva Gem ×1