I use draw/slice/feint sweep/chop. Same basic combo you're using but without the parrying and extra feint. Sweep provides a defensive penalty, which is why I feint that, but I personally find the extra parry and feint to be superfluous. Continually looping right to draw again from chop will be a miniscule balance penalty (usually not enough to even drop you one balance category), but the bonus from the previous three maneuvers easily outweighs this. You will usually be incredibly/nimbly balanced, and should never drop below solidly.

Well, with the DR3 combat I've been using swing, bash, and pummel. Shove really helps a lot to throw them back to pole, too.