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

poison arrow is a gameplay mechanic

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.

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

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

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

Too quick for their size.

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 ******* 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

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