Switch Axe · Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
Improved Steel Axe I
A switch axe of fine steel, with improved durability and power for more demanding hunts.
Stats
- Attack
- 385
- Affinity
- 0%
- Rarity
- 3
- Slots
- —
- Phial
- Poison 300
- Sharpness
- Red 70 · Orange 50 · Yellow 80 · Green 100
Upgrade path
Crafting materials
Total cost of Improved Steel Axe I: it comes from a 4-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 (4)
- Iron Ore ×8Gajau (reward), Great Jagras (reward) · also: gathering
- Machalite Ore ×7Gajau (reward) · also: gathering
- Dragonite Ore ×2Zorah Magdaros (carve), Gajau (reward) · also: gathering
- Monster Bone M ×2Barroth (reward), Tobi-Kadachi (reward), Jyuratodus (reward) +1
Quest, delivery or event (1)
Materials per step
1.Proto Iron Axe I (craft)
Iron Ore ×1
2.Proto Iron Axe II (upgrade)
Iron Ore ×2
3.Proto Iron Axe III (upgrade)
Earth Crystal ×2, Machalite Ore ×2, Iron Ore ×5
4.Improved Steel Axe I (upgrade)
Dragonite Ore ×2, Machalite Ore ×5, Monster Bone M ×2