Oh, Darkling, I advice you well to take<em>Fateful (Ability) Excellency</em>to some abilities, why you ask? Well, by spending 1 wp and 4m you turn every dice in the dice pool in indicated ability (let's say 13 dice with MA+Dex+weapon accuracy stat) into automatic success.<br/><br/>WP of course is expensive currency but fairly easy to get if you write nice 1 dice stunt and somehow get intimacy or motivation keyed to it (or write more awesome stunt), you regain WP fairly easy.<br/><br/>Of course this is up to you but I thought give this advice, as if you got huge dice pool with specific skill when applying specific specialty (say, presence when seducing), you would get so much overwhelming suxs that it bypass most MDV's and forces people burn WP or accept the intimacy. If it's being UMI, then more nastier then to resist.<br/><br/>Also with defensive abilities (like MA parry or dodge) in combat same excellency doubles your DV against the attack, if having general high DV and foe tries own you with one attack then you get semi-perfect vs it (high DV is good as perfect unless facing perfect attacks and those are rare).