Protonic Inversal Axe

The protonic inversal axe is a weapon in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Characteristics
The protonic inversal axe is a variant of the proton axe, having a dark blue-violet blade, whitish capacitors, and a black handle. Compared to the standard proton axe, it deals increased damage and much more critical damage, in addition to being much more durable. It is a very effective melee weapon against just about any enemy, especially robots or power armor users.

Special attack
It has a special Inversal Scarifier attack that does 200% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 10 more action points (requires a Melee skill of 50).

It is possible to execute Inversal Scarifier outside of V.A.T.S. (without the required Melee skill of 50 to perform the move) by initiating a power attack (hold attack button) while moving forward.

Durability
The protonic inversal axe can successfully strike about 1245 times from full condition before breaking.

Variants

 * Proton axe

Locations

 * The Cuckoo's Nest, found on Test Subject 1
 * Big MT, found on Number 27 and Number 34, ghouls near Little Yangtze.
 * Big MT, can be found on lobotomites.
 * X-13 research facility, found in Test Chamber #2, on the walkways to the right of the elevator (Hard Lock door)

Behind the scenes

 * The technology used by this weapon appears to be similar to the electric weapons created in the Secret Vault by Vault-Tec.
 * The protonic inversal axe is based on the proton ax of Wasteland, the 1980s game which is considered to be Fallout's predecessor.
 * The name may also reference the 1986 film Ghostbusters, which feared the looming threat of "total protonic reversal".

Sounds
Протонно-инверсная секира