So in the Exalted game I play in we did a mock combat to see how the characters we built fair in combat. My little twilight crafter/sorceress has 3 charms in combat after about 20 xp in. (WOod Dragon Claws, SoW and SSE) our Dawn has 5 of the charms from Solar Hero, plus MA First Excellency and generally has higher MA and Dex than I do(though I am not a slouch).
With Wood Dragon Claws and a 2 die stunt I was hitting 16 dice, the dawn was doing the same stunts but generally hitting 14. Which isn't so bad... until I started flurrying and since I can vary the rate I go at with WDC I was doing 6 action flurries destroying DVs that weren't perfected with Onslaught rules...