Battery drain after shutdown with Manjaro XFCE on Laptop

Are you sure is not entering in a hybrid suspend mode, or something that is not actually shutdown?
If you run:
systemctl poweroff
you still notice battery drain next time you turn it on?
Look for some log files that might point to something obvious like:

  • watchdog
  • ACPI errors
  • suspend/hibernate issues.

Some Laptops, and since you mentioned HP, require some custom kernel boot parameters as described here:

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