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Switch Axe · Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

Improved Steel Axe II

Stats

Attack
455
Affinity
0%
Rarity
4
Slots
—
Phial
Poison 300
Sharpness
Red 60 · Orange 50 · Yellow 80 · Green 110

Upgrade path

Crafting materials

Total cost of Improved Steel Axe II: it comes from a 5-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 (6)

  • Machalite Ore ×17Gajau (reward) · also: gathering
  • Iron Ore ×8Gajau (reward), Great Jagras (reward) · also: gathering
  • Dragonite Ore ×7Zorah Magdaros (carve), Gajau (reward) · also: gathering
  • Monster Bone M ×2Barroth (reward), Tobi-Kadachi (reward), Jyuratodus (reward) +1
  • Monster Bone+ ×2Great Jagras (reward), Kulu-Ya-Ku (reward), Tzitzi-Ya-Ku (reward) +5
  • Coral Crystal ×2Shamos (reward) · also: gathering

Quest, delivery or event (1)

Materials per step

  1. 1.Proto Iron Axe I (craft)

    Iron Ore ×1

  2. 2.Proto Iron Axe II (upgrade)

    Iron Ore ×2

  3. 3.Proto Iron Axe III (upgrade)

    Earth Crystal ×2, Machalite Ore ×2, Iron Ore ×5

  4. 4.Improved Steel Axe I (upgrade)

    Dragonite Ore ×2, Machalite Ore ×5, Monster Bone M ×2

  5. 5.Improved Steel Axe II (upgrade)

    Monster Bone+ ×2, Dragonite Ore ×5, Coral Crystal ×2, Machalite Ore ×10