
Switch Axe · Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
Golden Crescent
The rays of moonlight contained in this Gold Rathian axe illuminated a queen's march into darkness.
Stats
- Attack
- 1015
- Affinity
- 15%
- Rarity
- 12
- Slots
- 1
- Element
- Poison 390
- Phial
- Power
- Sharpness
- Red 70 · Orange 80 · Yellow 30 · Green 30 · Blue 80 · White 110
Upgrade path
Crafting materials
Total cost of Golden Crescent: it comes from a 11-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 (33)
- Rathalos Scale ×7Rathalos (reward)
- Rathalos Scale+ ×6Rathalos (reward)
- Azure Rathalos Scale+ ×6Azure Rathalos (reward)
- Rathian Shard ×5Rathian (reward)
- Monster Solidbone ×5Brute Tigrex (reward)
- Gold Rathian Shard ×5Gold Rathian (reward)
- Rathalos Carapace ×4Rathalos (break)
- Azure Rathalos Carapace ×4Azure Rathalos (break)
- Rathian Cortex ×4Rathian (break)
- Pink Rathian Shard ×4Pink Rathian (reward)
- Gold Rathian Cortex ×4Gold Rathian (break)
- Iron Ore ×3Gajau (reward), Great Jagras (reward) · also: gathering
- Great Jagras Claw ×3Great Jagras (break)
- Great Jagras Scale ×3Great Jagras (reward)
- Tzitzi-Ya-Ku Claw ×3Tzitzi-Ya-Ku (reward)
- Inferno Sac ×3Anjanath (reward), Azure Rathalos (reward), Pink Rathian (reward) +4
- Azure Rathalos Wing ×3Azure Rathalos (break)
- Rathian Surspike ×3Rathian (carve), Pink Rathian (carve)
- Pink Rathian Cortex ×3Pink Rathian (break)
- Gold Rathian Surspike ×3Gold Rathian (carve)
- Great Jagras Mane ×2Great Jagras (break)
- Rathalos Webbing ×2Rathalos (break)
- Flame Sac ×2Anjanath (reward), Rathian (reward), Rathalos (reward)
- Rathalos Tail ×2Rathalos (carve)
- Rathalos Wing ×2Rathalos (break)
- Great Jagras Hide ×1Great Jagras (break)
- Sharp Claw ×1Shamos (reward), Jagras (carve), Girros (reward)
- Rathalos Marrow ×1Rathalos (break)
- Rathalos Plate ×1Rathalos (reward), Azure Rathalos (carve)
- Rathalos Medulla ×1Azure Rathalos (break), Rathalos (break)
- Rathalos Ruby ×1Azure Rathalos (reward), Rathalos (reward)
- Rathian Mantle ×1Gold Rathian (reward), Pink Rathian (reward), Rathian (reward)
- Rath Gleam ×1Silver Rathalos (break), Gold Rathian (reward)
Gathered in the field (1)
- Coral Bone ×2Coral Highlands
Materials per step
1.Proto Iron Axe I (craft)
Iron Ore ×1
2.Proto Iron Axe II (upgrade)
Iron Ore ×2
3.Jagras Axe I (upgrade)
Great Jagras Claw ×1, Great Jagras Hide ×1, Great Jagras Scale ×3, Sharp Claw ×1
4.Jagras Axe II (upgrade)
Great Jagras Claw ×2, Great Jagras Mane ×2, Coral Bone ×2, Tzitzi-Ya-Ku Claw ×3
5.Rathalos Axe I (upgrade)
Rathalos Scale ×1, Rathalos Webbing ×2, Flame Sac ×2, Rathalos Marrow ×1
6.Rathalos Axe II (upgrade)
Rathalos Scale ×6, Rathalos Tail ×2, Rathalos Plate ×1, Inferno Sac ×3
7.Rathbringer Axe I (upgrade)
Rathalos Scale+ ×6, Rathalos Carapace ×4, Rathalos Wing ×2, Rathalos Medulla ×1
8.Rathbringer Axe II (upgrade)
Azure Rathalos Scale+ ×6, Azure Rathalos Carapace ×4, Azure Rathalos Wing ×3, Rathalos Ruby ×1
9.Dragonmaiden Axe (upgrade)
Rathian Surspike ×3, Rathian Shard ×5, Rathian Cortex ×4
10.Dragonmaiden Axe+ (upgrade)
Monster Solidbone ×5, Pink Rathian Shard ×4, Pink Rathian Cortex ×3, Rathian Mantle ×1
11.Golden Crescent (upgrade)
Gold Rathian Surspike ×3, Gold Rathian Shard ×5, Gold Rathian Cortex ×4, Rath Gleam ×1