Azraile:
Willpower always worked for anything along the lines of composure + ?
And apperance is often an important factor, sad true, but lot of vain people out there
Getting rid of perception is about as bad
The other alernitive would be keeping everything and adding a 4th physical stat like splitting stanima into two stats, one for taking hits and general body derabity, and the other for lasting power
Sorry, I'm still not getting what you mean.
If you want to use Willpower instead of Composure, then you could totally streamline it and go without Resolve (Mental Willpower) and Stamina (Physical Willpower) too. Kind of drastic, but I'm trying to understand how you use Willpower.
Presence isn't Appearance and you can take a Merit to improve a character's appearance.
You get your Perception from Wits + Composure or Wits + the appropriate Skill.
-- OWoD: a character with high Perception was Sherlock Holmes. He takes in everything all the time. Never misses a beat.
-- NWoD: you have the people that post in Community Chat about how much they hate bad grammar, but miss punctuation in the very same post. (No hate. I love RPoL's Community Chat and it takes all of us to make a community. ^_^ )
NWoD Perception can be easily tailored so a character would be especially razor sharp in some areas and lacking in others. I really like this. It works for the kind of game I like to play.
How do you like to play? I want to understand how your changes work for you. Head's up, I'm about to get ready for work. So if I don't answer you back in the next half hour, please don't feel ignored. ^_^