Okay, that's fairly true.  Willpower does recover at a rate of rolled conviction per day though, so unless you have terminally poor willpower, social combat isn't likely to do more than keep you from channeling your virtues every action.<br/><br/>I might be a little out of line though, since I'm used to playing exalted irl, where social combat between PCs is considered the norm in every group I've played in.  (And very few groups had a problem with unnatural mental influence being used either)