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The Revenant Shield Guard is a skeletal melee fighter type of undead, added to the game in the Reaper of Souls expansion pack. It can only be found in Act V, as well as randomly in [[Nephalem Rifts]]. It is classified as a [[Reaper]]. This monster is a an armored skeleton, found randomly and raised by the [[Summoner of the Dead]].
They can also be created from human NPC guards, when transformed by [[Death Maiden]]s. They are commonly found protecting [[Revenant Archer]]s and look much like [[Revenant Soldiers]], differentiated chiefly by their shieldand by their higher [[hit points]] <ref>For example, with a level 69 hardcore character in normal difficulty, the hit points for '''Revenant Soldiers''' were found to amount to 682'092 +/- 137'321 (mean +/- SD, n=40) while they amounted to 919'178 +/- 184'535 (mean +/- SD, n=16) for '''Revenant Shield Guards'''.</ref>.
Blizzard introduced the monster with some lore as part of the Westmarch Bestiary preview in November 2013:<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablol-3-reaper-souls-westmarch-bestiary Westmarch Bestiary] - Blizzard.com</ref>
