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Gehenna is a unique weapon in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Gun Runners' Arsenal.
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Characteristics
Gehenna is the GRA variant of the Shishkebab, a flaming melee weapon which sets the target on fire upon impact. It appears to run on fuel from the gas tank on the player's back, though its use in-game requires no fuel source.
In comparison to the standard Shishkebab, Gehenna has a more pronounced and brighter flame, its valve is blue instead of the standard red, its handle is black, and the motorcycle gas tank is more rusted. In addition, Gehenna inflicts greater damage, has a higher DPS, and uses fewer Action Points in V.A.T.S. than the Shishkebab.
Special attack
Gehenna has a special attack called Back Slash that does 70% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 3 fewer action points (requires a Melee skill of 50).
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - Type of attack |  | - Skill required | |
 | - Damage per attack in V.A.T.S. |  | - Action point cost | |
 | - Damage per action point |  | - Additional effects | |
| | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | 0 | 84 | 25 | 3.36 |
| Back Slash | 50 | 58.8 | 22 | 2.67 |
- Note: Melee weapons do double normal damage in V.A.T.S.
It is possible to execute Back Slash 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
Gehenna can successfully strike about 1995 times from full condition before breaking.
Variants
- Shishkebab - the common variant found in the Mojave Wasteland.
Comparison
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - Weapon name (melee or unarmed) |  | - Attacks in V.A.T.S. | |
 | - Weapon name (gun, energy or explosive) | | - Action point cost | |
| - Damage per attack (damage per projectile) | | - Damage per action point | |
 | - Damage per second |  | - Weapon spread | |
 | - Area of effect damage |  | - Magazine capacity (shots per reload) | |
| - Effect damage & duration |  | - Durability (number of attacks before breaking) | |
 | - Bonus effects |  | - Weight | |
| - Attacks per second |  | - Value in caps | |
 | - Critical chance % multiplier |  | - Value to weight ratio | |
 | - Critical damage | | - Skill required | |
 | - Critical effect damage & duration |  | - Strength required | |
 | - With all mods attached | |||
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shishkebab | 40 | 94.3 | +2 /5s | 2.31 | x2 | 20 | 28 | 3.2 | 2495 | 3 | 2500 | 833.3 | 75 | 6 |
Gehenna  | 42 | 121.3 | +5/5s | 2.77 | x2 | 21 | 25 | 4.4 | 1995 | 3 | 12000 | 4000 | 75 | 6 |
- Note: Melee damage is doubled in V.A.T.S.
Location
- Gun Runners, sold by Vendortron.
Notes
- Even though Gehenna's blade is wreathed in fire, poisons can still be applied to the weapon. The damage over time from the applied poison stacks with the immolation damage. If the Courier has the Pyromaniac perk and poison is applied to Gehenna, it can become one of the most damaging melee weapons in the game.
- Gehenna is one of the weapons the Courier can use to complete the challenge "The Same Could Be Said of All Religious Weapons."
- As it is constantly on fire, Gehenna will set off gas leaks if the player walks through one with the sword drawn. The same applies if a companion has it equipped.
- When a limb is severed by Gehenna while on fire, the flames will never go out.
- There are twelve tally marks etched into Gehenna's gas tank, indicating the amount of kills from the previous owner. This is similar to the Ratslayer and the base Shishkebab.
- The text "VALVCO" is engraved on the valve.
- As with all Shishkebabs, it seems to have an infinite supply of gas.
- The flame damage does not stack when applied on enemies.
Behind the scenes
- Gehenna is a valley located outside ancient Jerusalem, and was a place where various pagans sacrificed humans by throwing them in fire, and later, as Jerusalem and Judaism developed, waste would be burned there. Due to the increasing population, and thus waste, the fire was said to burn continually, and Jesus, and later Dante Alighieri, used this to produce an image of Hell, which is now the most widespread representation: a place where evil people go to burn for eternity.
- Gehenna is Aramaic for “Valley of the people of Hinnom," which is the proper name of the valley of blood, whose name later became synonymous with, and often translated as, hell.
Bugs
Sometimes when you switch between the 3rd person view and the 1st person view, the flames don't appear. Removing and re-equipping the weapon fixes this problem.[verified]- When used by companions, the blade and tank will not appear. Only the oven mitt on the right hand will appear.[verified]
Sounds
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Gallery
Gehenna at work.
Gehenna in the achievement image for Curios and Relics
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