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Guardians of the Rift checks completion of Temple of the Eye, level 27 Runecrafting and a pickaxe that your Mining level can use. Bring inventory space as well as your tools. The arena supplies a chisel through the weak-cell table's Take-chisel option.
At the entrance barrier, Peek reports the current phase, players inside and charge during combat. Pass and Quick-pass use the same entry rules; neither bypasses a locked round. The barrier also has a Visual-effects option to disable the colourful transition.
Turn resources into guardian power
Mine guardian remains for fragments, then use the workbench to turn fragments into guardian essence. Fragments stack, but essence does not, so free slots determine how much you can prepare.
Use an available altar portal that your Runecrafting level supports. Crafting guardian essence produces runes and the corresponding elemental or catalytic guardian stones. Return to the Great Guardian and choose Power-up to contribute those stones. Ordinary stones award two energy of their type each; polyelemental and polycatalytic stones award three.
Take uncharged cells from their table and charge or upgrade them through altar crafting. Cells support barriers and rift guardians. Before a round, uncharged cells can build weak defences; during active play, charged cells power, upgrade or heal them. Assembling a rift guardian requires a chisel, and the arena allows at most ten guardians at once.
The huge portal can provide guardian essence directly while its resource window is available. Keep watching the current round and portal state instead of assuming access stays open indefinitely.
Earn both kinds of reward points
A winning round needs at least 300 combined elemental and catalytic energy to award completion points. Each energy type converts separately: every full 100 energy gives one point, and the remainder gives the equivalent percentage chance of an extra point. For example, 250 energy yields two points with a 50% chance of a third.
One normal reward search consumes one elemental and one catalytic point. A large balance in only one type cannot provide the same number of searches as two balanced pools. Use the displayed balances when deciding which altar runs to prioritise.
Search the Rewards Guardian
Search performs one reward search; Big-search requests five. Leave at least two free inventory slots. Check shows both balances, available searches and lifetime searches.
You can use abyssal pearls on the Rewards Guardian to buy an extra search for 25 pearls, subject to stored-search capacity. Consider the other uses of pearls before spending them.
The donor reward bonus applies only to rune supplies; it does not improve unique reward odds. If you previously unlocked an abyssal needle and no longer own it or a colossal pouch variant, using an ordinary needle on the guardian provides the supported reclaim route.