RK-9 Kennel

RK-9 Kennel is a dungeon for 5-man parties located in Northern Arun.

Dungeon was originally released as part of October 2017 Arsenal patch (Might of the Mechanic in EU ) for level 65 players. This patch also had new style level 65 gear. RK-9 hard mode was released in following patch.

Dungeon has quite odd structure with three bosses in their own rooms and travel through teleportals that appear depending which bosses are finished. There's also minigame/puzzle between 1st and 2nd bosses in its own room. Trivia: if you greet people at starting area they get a buff and greeting repeats every time they exit a portal. This makes everyone very happy!

Dungeon was nerfed somewhere on way, and this means special mechanics (bombardment on 1st boss and infamous S-Bomb on last boss) no longer one-shot you if sufficiently geared. This makes dungeon quite fast (if it were not total 7 portal travels) and popular farming dungeon. Only thing that can still insta-gib you are the hydraulic presses on 2nd boss, as boss has plenty mechanics that throw you to room edge.

Dungeon hard mode was removed in April 2020 patch and normal mode buffed to level 68. Dungeon also had August 2020 Rampaging RK-9 Kennel event version which had slightly more mechanics than hard mode. This dropped special RK-9 partner. Normal mode dungeon was closed in January 2021 patch v102.

Dungeon drops collection cards "Randun", "Observation Room".

Lore
RK-9 is Randun’s robotic masterpiece, the perfect blend of technological craftsmanship and magical energy!

Hooded man in Thaumetal Refinery was identified as Randun. He secretly took the Bloodshard and was creating a monstrous machine named the RK-9 using it.

Randun is known to player from Echoes of Aranea when he took part of expedition to the black land, the Northern Arun with the Elin princess Syona in search of the Fountain of Arun.

Bosses

 * Ventarun, Sentinel Machine
 * simply Argon Arzakaar with same attack patterns
 * Hexapleon, Overlord
 * seems to be based on Fulminar from Bathysmal Rise with similar attacks
 * RK-9, Randun's Masterpiece

All bosses are type "Magical Device".

Achievements

 * Vortex Rider - jump down from edges 50 times during first boss fight (to avoid bombardement mech)
 * Shockless - defeat Hexapleon without taking damage from electric explosions
 * De-Pressed - don't get hit by presses on second boss
 * Hopscoth - avoid the S-bomb on last boss
 * Move it Along - complete previous achievements
 * Weapon Inspection - defeat the last boss
 * No More Robophobia - clear dungeon 10 times
 * Words Cannot Express Randun - find Randun's journals in last boss chamber