http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?referrerid=&t=252712&highlight=exalted+combat+101
This is an awesome guide to how Exalted 2.0 combat works. Read it. If you've already read it, read it again.
I was really hoping you'd do what Brian did and stick XP in the middle of it >:P
I read it. Combat seems like a hand-run FFXII battle, now.
I think I need a new character concept. <_<;;