These fellows seem to have an oversized arm don't they? Did you guys notice all of the imprisoned beast men in Yahar'gul have a giant arm too? Are they maybe letting folk reach a certain stage of plague transformation and then shaving them and turning them into more Snatchers? If someone or something can experimentally control the effects of the transformation that could be how the church giants got so big, although they do appear to be corpses or something.

Just use kirkhammer in hammer mode, hit em twice (or thrice) up until they do their charge animation, while they're doing that, charge your hammer too, if they're still alive hit r2 once more for an easy kill

Is it possible that these are pthumerians? They look similar to the pthumerians and are also encountered in the pthumeru chalice dungeons

I needed three "Ritual Blood (4)" cups for a chalice ritual, and these guys dropped a cup every time I killed one. Seriously, almost every Snatcher I kill in P.C:L3 gives Ritual Blood. In other words, get farming!

If you start at the Hypogean Gaol lamp, you can taunt the 2 Snatchers in that room and then run down the stairs without having to fight them in "real" combat: they can't go under the stairs (most times). Kill them with long weapons and enter the door behind you. Beware of the two old lady-like monsters, their grab hurts like hell! If you run down the stairs, the one that runs away will instead stop and look at you. Kill both and dispatch the 'sleeping' enemies in the cages now in front of you. In the next room, 2 other Snatchers await you. Taunt both of 'em and slowly pull them back to the door at the stairs: they can't go through that door! Eliminate them as you killed the first 2. Now go back, up the stairs, across the room, and kill the old hag-monster hiding behind a pillar (you can R2 her and visceral attack her). Once outside, go to the stairs in front of you and taunt the Pig at the bottom like the Echoes-farming boss you are. When it's starting to charge, quickly hide behind the fence that bars the stairs. If all goes well, the pig will turn and try to attack you through the stairs. Kill it by attacking it once or twice through the stairs (with R2 ofcourse) and backstepping after that to avoid his swings. Now, go to the left (when facing the opposite side of the Lamp-church) and watch out for a second pig. This one is easier to kill since you can trick him into charging between the wall and the lamp. Land a well-timed R2 to keep him between the pillars and draw out another attack and then kill him. Congratulations! You now have 8 Bloodstone Shards (or some Twin Bloodstone Shards) and 15K-ish echoes (forgot the exact amount, please add in the comments). There are some other Snatchers in the area but you'll have to kill some annoying dogs first. Enjoy the hunt. (PS if there's a better farming spot please don't hesitate to comment)

How come this specific enemy blocking you from respawning? I was curious as to how they disable the hunters mark.

When the snatchers raises up its arm and about to land a punch, use your gun to shoot him at this moment, it should be staggered, now go for Visceral Attack to soak up his health, with two more swings, it should be dead for good.

If I never kill blood-starved beast or kill him after Rom (blood-starved beast is optional), will the dead snatchers still appear with their bloodstone chunks? I don't want to risk losing a ton of valuable chunks, but I'm also in ng+ and don't want to fight Djura and his machine gun bull*****.

I came up against one of these in a chalice dungeon (depth 3) and he grabbed me by the throat and one shot me, my vitality is level 27 and i have a rune to boost my max HP by 10% and i was at full health. Anyone else had this? Never seen it before and thought it was a bit extreme but the game is being a proper ****** to me today and beasting me at every opportunity