Spam was nerfed, for example at lvl 30 WM6 pre-patch you had 180 WPF, now you'll have 150 WPF. That's a pretty big nerf. Spam seems still present because of the light armors people now wear (the lighter your armor is the faster you are) and there is the lightning-fast Katana, that will probably get nerfed again. Usually spammers have 0 blocking skill, if you block one of their attacks they are dead.