Self-Confident
Merit · 5 pts
You are so sure of your own abilities that when you expend Willpower to gain an automatic success on an endeavor, you have a chance to gain the benefit of that expenditure without actually losing the Willpower. When you spend Willpower for an automatic success, you do not actually lose it unless the auto-success is the only one garnered in the roll. This Merit may only be used in challenging situations, that is, when the difficulty of your roll is six or higher. You may spend Willpower for an automatic success at other times, but if your difficulty is five or less, the Willpower will be spent regardless of what you roll.
Also in BoS p. 47 — text differs from W20 (59%)
Mages are confident; you’re even more so. When spending Willpower to gain an automatic success, you don’t even need to lose that point of Willpower unless:
1) The Willpower-gained success is the only success you get for that action; or…
2) the difficulty for that action is 5 or less. This Merit kicks in only in challenging circumstances, and tasks with a difficulty of 5 or lower are just too easy to demand help from your character’s self-confidence.
Mages tend – with good reason! – to be seen as crazy, obsessive, or otherwise touched in the head. And so, mental Flaws are common among those nutty Awakened types, most especially the ones who, for reasons mentioned earlier in the Neurodiversity and Mental Traits sidebar, have mental Merits as well.