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I can deal with the sword welding ones but ****ing damn the hammer welding ones are spamming to no end

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poison arrow is a gameplay mechanic

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I love how not only do the great hammer wielding Drakekeepers have infinite stamina and absurd aggression to the point that they pretty much attack constantly if you're in their range, they also are guaranteed to stunlock you if they land even a single hit on you because their attacks are guaranteed to stagger you regardless of how much poise you have and they swing so fast it's impossible to roll away before the second swing hits you, not to mention how they hit insanely hard to the point they can almost 2-shot you even if you have high vigor and good armor, yeah... Screw these guys with extreme prejudice.

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Bullshit tracking and rollcatching, and infinite stamina and unending comboes Galore with the 2-handed mace variations of these bastards

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I'm playing SotFS and didn't find any wielding hammer and shield.

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Any tips on how to defeat them playing sword and shield?

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Too quick for their size.

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The Greatshield+Warhammer ones are absolutely awful to fight, they turtle behind their shields whenever they're not attacking and are seemingly impossible to guard-break, and when they do it's the same extremely fast swings with obnoxious tracking and guaranteed stunlock that the 2-handed Great Hammer ones do, only they also have a bullshit nigh-instant shield bash that does very high damage is guaranteed to stun you and leaves you completely defenseless for a few seconds which can easily get you slaughtered if there's other enemies around, and they love to spam it everytime you get close to them, they're easily even more horrible than the Great Hammer ones imo, atleast the Great Hammer guys give you atleast one second or two to hit them

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The 2-handed mace versions of these guys must've have mentored the Greatsword-wielding Cathedral Knights from Dark Souls 3, It's uncanny how similar they are in terms of how they fight, the infinite stamina, the infinite poise, the really awful attack patterns varying from swing extremely quickly and aggressively to extremely slow and delayed swings with utterly ridiculous tracking combined with the fact they attack non-stop often swing 8 times in a row with a weapon that would require you to have 100000 stamina to get even the tiniest bit close to how much they swing, and the biggest similarity of all, THEY BOTH ****ING SUCK

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Goes to show how unhinged and broken and possibly high on crack these guys are since they'll often randomly have violent seizures and twitch and spazz out really erratically before attacking you

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I just hate hammer ones. They just one shot you if you got it. Due to their non-stop combos.

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Great Club +10 go bonk. 1 or 2 hits should do it.

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I'm surprised that not more people are mentioning how horrible the greatshield+warpick ones are, they are even worse than the two-handed great mace ones if you ask me

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killing them seems to make nearby dragon knights non-hostile for me

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I'm a bit surprised by all the complaints about how hard they are... Yeah, they're annoying if you pull several at a time, but at Heide's Tower, the first ones are single... Not too tricky, just like every other DS enemy- watch and look for opportunities. Don't get greedy!
I loved going through HT on my first run-through and getting a load of souls- farming early on was great! (Way easier than in the Forest IMO).
I 'd also suggest using poison arrows if you have them, when they start attacking in small groups (ie 2 or 3) if you can poison 1, it makes the job a lot easier.

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A stomach ulcer in the form of a video game enemy

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The mace-wielding Drakekeepers are cancer in a physical form

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Old Knights on crack and steroids. The one with the hammer and shield is the worst.

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Wow this guy can combo forever, has no concept of stamina and spins on a dime to face me. This sucks.

*Eight years later*

Wow this boss can combo forever, has no concept of stamina, heavily tracks the player and its tells are literally unseeable on top of having 50/50 mixups. Freaking epic. From FTW

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Me: How much stamina you have?
Drakekeeper: Yes

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"slow movement" my a$$. The greathammer one goes gascoigne on you.

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These guys are legit some of the worst enemies in the series, they break a rule that like no one else breaks, they have EXTREMELY damaging attacks and have nearly instant follow up attacks. And its a shame, because these guys look awesome and so does all their equipment.

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Can be one shotted with Smelter hammer +10

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i hate these guys, they never run out of stamina, its bs

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First one was a fun fight.
Then I got to Mr. 2-handed Hammer.
... It wasn't fun anymore.

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boy the hadouken of the bone fists just melts them. im at str 70 and dex 70 in ng+4 and I only need 2 Hadoukens per drakekeeper. Crazy

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The weapon drop rate of these guys is a pain, worse than greathammer one.

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The GreatHammer one is literally an *******, maybe a worse one than the Heide Knight with a Spear/Lance.

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I suggest using a Raw Old Knight Hammer +10 they become pancakes easily with R2 mostly.

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Use ranged weapons

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I hate the one with the Greathammer... Stunlock with the first attack so that the second connects. Sadly... I have to farm this weapon now for my personal 100% run. And I already made them despawn without getting it so I have to use the CoC which makes them deal even more Dmg. Thank you Dark Souls.

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The Greatshield of Glory is all i need. farmed the armor set and other weapons on a 2 day farm binge.

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They have like zero delay between attacks tf

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"They aren't old knights, I swear"

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They can keep Drake, just make sure he stays away from 14 year olds

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Old Knight: "Who are you?" Drakekeeper: "I'm you, but stronger."

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Hammer ones have a nasty habit of ignoring they were just attacking and moving onto a new attack string milliseconds after the last one ended...

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Just use toxic mist on them and you can take groups of them out with just one spell

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Step one: Hit them with 4 poison arrows Step two: backtrack down the stairs a little (first three) / through the doorway (warpick+shield guy) Step three: wait Step four: profit

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Greatsword 1061HP on NG Greatsheild and Hammer 1375 HP still working on Great Hammer and Sword and sheild

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Slow moving enemies yeah sure !!!

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The sword weilding ones can slam their swords on you when they do the spin combo, Dodge it can't block it, how I know this? Killed by it but only once. Hardest level in the game

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one of the most badass looking generic foe in the game

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Had one of those greathammer ones do a 12 hit combo on me till I lost all my stamina from blocking. Then I got hit and it stopped.

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Fire seems to work best for me; maybe they just have bad all-around magic/element resistance

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I believe they are weakest to dark, then magic second.

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I use sorcery it seems to work quite nicely

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When farming these for souls I always use greater fireball on the 2h ones they go nuts if you get in close

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