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Rift Guardians drop more items (including materials and gems) than any other single target in the game, and are the single best source for [[Blood Shards]], dropping at least 40 on Normal difficulty and increasing 5-10 per difficulty level (up to 100~ on Torment 6). Their drop values have changed repeatedly; during the Reaper of Souls beta test Guardians dropped like any random Elite, with the main reward for clearing a rift coming in a [[Horadric Cache]], but this drop was moved directly to the Guardian during testing.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/legendary-plans-caches-rift-bosses-set-change-next-patch]
* [[[Greater Rift Guardians]] were added to the game with Greater Rifts in [[Patch 2.1]]. These are souped-up versions of normal identical to Rift Guardians in appearance and spawn just the sameabilities, appearing when a Greater Rift is 100% completed. They are more dangerous than normal Rift Guardiansbut they grow nastier on higher difficulty level [[Grifts]], and tend to attack and summon capable of dealing their attacks or summonings much more rapidlyquickly.
Rift Guardians are randomly-assigned to each Rift, with one picked from the possible Guardians on a large list. (With one exception; the [[Lord of Bells]] only appears after the [[Easter Egg]] Infernal Bovine cow rifts.)[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/reaper-souls-easter-egg-infernal-bovine-secret-nephalem-rift]
Rift Guardians are all "purple" Unique monsters, with special powers and abilities that are pre-set, rather than randomly-spawned as the [[Boss Modifiers|Modifiers]] are on random [[Elites]]. Many Most Guardians have some special abilities that do not appear on other bossesin their normal, such as non-Guardian forms (including the full screen elemental attacks displayed by [[Rime]] and [[Blighter]] when they drop below 25% healthQuest/Act Bosses).
==Rift Guardian Roll Call==
[[File:Rift-bosses-achievement-ros1.jpg|thumb|400px|Rift Guardians Achievement listing.]]
The Rift Guardians are randomly-selected to appear at the end of the rift. They are entirely random and unweighted, with any able to appear in any type of Rift, with one exception. The [[Lord of Bells]] is the [[Easter Egg]] version of the [[Cow King]] and will only appear at the end of the ultra-rare [[Infernal Bovine]] rift.
* [[File:Rift-bosses-achievement-ros1.jpg|thumb|400px|[Greater Rift Guardians Achievement listing.]]: All of these Guardians (save the [[Lord of Bells]]) can appear as [[Greater Rift Guardians]], where they may have additional abilities or other improvementsupgrades.