Using two sabers in combat is clearly inferior to using a double-bladed saber in almost all respects, but it seems that there might be some benefits. In particular, crystals that give certain benefits outside of hacking and slashing might stack when used in two sabers.

For example, the Etaan Crystal allows for a 1 Innate Talent (Parry) Mod and a 1 Innate Talent (Reflect) Mod. These would obviously be beneficial even if on the offhand blade while the primary blade held a more offense-based Crystal, but what if the character had two Etaan Crystals? This should stack and allow for an effective 2 free ranks of each talent. Not too shabby.

An even more interesting option comes from the Corrupted Crystal. Wielding such a weapon offers a free dark side Force point, so a pair should offer two such points. This is a great way for a "low FR" character (like many of the losers that became Inquisitors) to claim the power they need to take on their better.

There’s also the Defensive/Offensive combinations where you focus on improving defensive/deflection on one saber and focus on Damage or Crit+Vicious with the second.

Also if you throw a saber but don’t have enough pips to catch it then a two saber character has a second they can use as backup.

1 hour ago, Richardbuxton said:

There’s  also the Defensive/Offensive combinations where you focus on  improving defensive/deflection on one  saber  and focus on Damage or Crit+Vicious with the second.

Yup, this is the benefit to dual wielding.

It's actually pretty effective.

Guard Shoto w/ a modded Curved Hilt, modded Lorridian Gem...

Pick your flavor of choice for damage.

On 9/2/2018 at 9:18 AM, emsquared said:

Guard Shoto w/ a modded Curved Hilt, modded Lorridian Gem...

I don't disagree it is a good build .. but ...Wow.. that just broke my brain... what would that even look like?

11 hours ago, samuraisolomon said:

I don't disagree it is a good build .. but ...Wow.. that just broke my brain... what would that even look like?

Have you ever seen one of those massage canes ?

On 9/1/2018 at 8:42 PM, HappyDaze said:

Using two sabers in combat is clearly inferior to using a double-bladed saber in almost all respects, but it seems that there might be some benefits.

This is because of Linked, I think, which I generally don't like. I've house ruled it out and use Auto-fire instead.

Etaan Crystal Guard Shoto with a Reflex grip both fully modded out and a Crossblade hilt with a Ghostfire Crystal fully modded out...