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Switch Axe · Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

Improved Steel Axe III

Stats

Attack
490
Affinity
0%
Rarity
5
Slots
1
Element
Poison 300 (hidden)
Phial
Poison 300
Sharpness
Red 90 · Orange 50 · Yellow 50 · Green 80 · Blue 80

Upgrade path

Crafting materials

Total cost of Improved Steel Axe III: it comes from a 6-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)

  • Machalite Ore ×17Gajau (reward) · also: gathering
  • Dragonite Ore ×12Zorah Magdaros (carve), Gajau (reward) · also: gathering
  • Iron Ore ×8Gajau (reward), Great Jagras (reward) · also: gathering
  • Carbalite Ore ×8Uragaan (carve) · 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

Gathered in the field (1)

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

  6. 6.Improved Steel Axe III (upgrade)

    Carbalite Ore ×8, Dragonite Ore ×5, Dragonvein Crystal ×2