I justed wanted to correct the incorrect assumption that spamming attacks won't help at a competitive level: seriously, it blinds your opponent if they're looking at the right point on their screen (which, with comp-level players, is almost always).
Besides, if you keep them on the defensive they don't have much time to think about an offensive. The key is knowing how to make "random mouse1 mashing" part of a combo chain. I love to whore mouse1 until my opponent ducks behind me...then I backslash and win. Works like a charm. If I'm feeling especially cocky, I'll do a flying backslash.
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I kind of find it strange how the manual describes dual lightsabers and double edged lightsabers as being very rare when every 2nd reborn seems to use them in SP.