
Switch Axe · Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
Moonstone Hoarfrost
A silver Frostfang Barioth switch axe enveloped by a sharp cold. Proof of the hoarfrost's keeper.
Stats
- Attack
- 945
- Affinity
- 15%
- Rarity
- 11
- Slots
- —
- Element
- Ice 480
- Phial
- Power Element
- Sharpness
- Red 10 · Orange 40 · Yellow 50 · Green 50 · Blue 60 · White 120 · Purple 70
Upgrade path
Crafting materials
Total cost of Moonstone Hoarfrost: 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 (25)
- Great Jagras Claw+ ×18Great Jagras (break)
- Great Jagras Mane ×11Great Jagras (break)
- Great Jagras Scale ×8Great Jagras (reward)
- Great Jagras Claw ×6Great Jagras (break)
- Great Jagras Scale+ ×6Great Jagras (reward)
- Jagras Hide+ ×6Jagras (carve)
- Great Jagras Hide+ ×6Great Jagras (break)
- Piercing Claw ×5Shamos (reward), Jagras (carve), Girros (reward)
- Tzitzi-Ya-Ku Claw+ ×5Tzitzi-Ya-Ku (reward)
- Monster Hardbone ×4Black Diablos (reward), Diablos (reward), Odogaron (reward) +8
- Barioth Cortex ×4Barioth (reward)
- Cryo Sac ×4Beotodus (reward), Legiana (reward), Barioth (reward) +1
- Iron Ore ×3Gajau (reward), Great Jagras (reward) · also: gathering
- Tzitzi-Ya-Ku Claw ×3Tzitzi-Ya-Ku (reward)
- Monster Bone+ ×3Great Jagras (reward), Kulu-Ya-Ku (reward), Tzitzi-Ya-Ku (reward) +5
- Barioth Hardclaw ×3Barioth (break)
- Silverwhite Frostfang ×3Frostfang Barioth (break)
- Vaal Hazak Talon ×2Vaal Hazak (break)
- Great Jagras Shard ×2Great Jagras (reward)
- Great Jagras Mane+ ×2Great Jagras (break)
- Great Jagras Hide ×1Great Jagras (break)
- Sharp Claw ×1Shamos (reward), Jagras (carve), Girros (reward)
- Novacrystal ×1Kirin (reward) · also: gathering
- Great Jagras Hardclaw ×1Great Jagras (break)
- Bergcrusher Claw ×1Frostfang Barioth (break)
Gathered in the field (1)
- Coral Bone ×2Coral Highlands
Quest, delivery or event (4)
- Gracium ×5
- Frozen Bone ×3
- Jagras Shard ×2
- Frostfang Ticket ×2
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.Jagras Axe III (upgrade)
Monster Bone+ ×3, Great Jagras Scale ×5, Great Jagras Claw ×3, Great Jagras Mane ×3
6.Jagras Raider I (upgrade)
Great Jagras Scale+ ×6, Great Jagras Claw+ ×4, Great Jagras Mane ×6, Piercing Claw ×5
7.Jagras Raider II (upgrade)
Monster Hardbone ×4, Great Jagras Claw+ ×6, Jagras Hide+ ×6, Tzitzi-Ya-Ku Claw+ ×5
8.Jagras Raider III (upgrade)
Vaal Hazak Talon ×2, Great Jagras Claw+ ×8, Great Jagras Hide+ ×6, Novacrystal ×1
9.Saber's Bite I (upgrade)
Great Jagras Shard ×2, Great Jagras Hardclaw ×1, Great Jagras Mane+ ×2, Jagras Shard ×2
10.Amber Slash (upgrade)
Barioth Hardclaw ×3, Barioth Cortex ×4, Cryo Sac ×4, Frozen Bone ×3
11.Moonstone Hoarfrost (upgrade)
Frostfang Ticket ×2, Silverwhite Frostfang ×3, Bergcrusher Claw ×1, Gracium ×5