Wow. I'd never even considered that you only got the one set. In my RL game, we've been using one set per stress track. To me, it seems absurd that being PUBLICLY HUMILIATED (social consequence) makes me unable have my ARM BROKEN (physical consequence). I understand that they're gaming abstractions and all, but still.

Normally I'd agree with you, but actually in the Dresdenverse it makes a kind of perverse sense.  There's a reason this game has a social and hunger track, where most Fate games just have physical and mental.

I think of it as lack of resilience.  If I'm all stressed out because everybody is laughing at me because they think my wife is having an affair, a broken arm is more likely to "take me out" instead of me just gritting my teeth and using my happy marriage to bolster my resolve while fighting onward.

This is especially true for practitioners, whose magic is based on their overall state of mind, but given that the main fuel for pure mortals is fate points, (or to use the in-universe metaphor "free will") consequences limit their choices and thus reduce their power to affect the universe.    For a creature like a Fay, consequences of any kind make them less like themselves, weakening their power.

In a game where you can break a grapple with a humiliating remark, social consequences make perfect sense.

Hell, look at how often  Harry gets combat advantage by infuriating opponents, and also how seriously everybody takes attacks to reputation.

I'd say using a demesne works a lot better as a kind of lab space than as a bag of holding, barring some other powers (such as worldwalker perhaps, but I'm not sure that's quite right).   Stuff in the nevernever is where it is...it moves slowly as the things it's anchored to in the mortal world change but it's nowhere near as mobile as a mortal running around a city.

You could also take the approach that you conjure the items at the usual speed and carry them around, but your evocation is more effective when it operates on objects you conjure yourself (backed by stunts or similar).   A low resources character could pretty easily get a lot of basic gear that is normally illegal/unavailable this way.  A character with scholarship, crafting and the demolitions stunt could probably conjure actual explosives, which might be kind of interesting on some kinds of characters.

Objects conjured with Soulfire have obvious catch advantages too, although that falls under evothaum.

Ok, I don't remember water having much impact in side jobs one way or the other (that's Murphy's story after Changes...she ganked the guy before he really did anything if memory serves).  The fight was in a dark warehouse with mooks armed with shell-guns for the most part.

Even Hand...I kinda remember a scene with sprinklers that didn't do much, but that guy was just walking through the defenses.  If his defenses were water based that might be all the explanation we need.

In Bombshells, the Fomor was using glamors (spirit) and fire (fire...) both of which grounded out normally when he set off sprinklers.  He might have had other magic to use, but resorted to a physical attack instead (which was working rather well for him, actually, so why bothe with magic....)

I think we haven't seen enough Fomor to know very much yet.

Full defense is a trapping of Rapport seemingly only in social rolls (see "closing down" trapping which is obvious when you're doing full defense.  Other types of defense such as deceit or discipline applied to social attacks don't seem to have a full defense mode, they're already "active" I guess....)

For other kinds of defense, it is tied to making a "defense roll" against an attack or maneuver, which normally means Athletics (dodging), Discipline (mental defense), Fists (close combat defense), Weapons (melee defense).

The important thing (regardless of how social skill work) is even if some other skill is being attacked (like maybe a gravity based attack on might) you get a defense roll.  In a block, there is no defense roll, there is only the roll to establish the block strength.  So full defense is only useful in conjunction with a block if by doing so your defense roll is higher than the block strength, and the block strength is beaten by an incoming attack.

I think we all agree a "pickpocket with discipline" stunt would work, skinned as magic, just as some forms of "zero stress" battle magic are skinned that way (eg, substitute discipline for athletics to dodge to simulate fast deflection spells)

If you don't want to spend precious refresh on it, thaumaturgy can clearly do the trick, but it lacks a lot of the advantages of a rote.  So a wizard with pickpocketing on his mind would only want a rote if the idea is to do it really fast, under high stress situations (such as combat).

The main concern isn't that evocation can't be subtle, it is that all it can do is block, maneuver, attack and sometimes move.

Thaum lets you "solve impossible problems", a much broaders scope, and is the source of most skill replacement stunts.

Mechanically though, taking something away from somebody is a maneuver.

Doing a maneuver without being noticed would require some kind of veil (block vs awareness) or maneuver (a distraction type aspect you would then invoke with the free tag to not notice the pickpocket).

So either you want two rotes, and two actions, or you need a rote that combines say, a veil and a maneuver with more shifts.  Given that you can probably combine an attack and a maneuver (Fuego as often portrayed in the books is something I would skin as a fire attack with 3 shifts dedicated to a "knocked back" type spirit maneuver which is then immediately invoked to toss the guy into another zone) a high enough shift rote (6 shifts maybe for two maneuvers or a maneuver+level 3 veil?) might get it done in one action. 

What do people think about combining effects via more shifts, rather than one massive effect?  Is that one of those things discussed to death or is there a consensus on that (I can see action economy balance issues, unless you also allow a high result non-magic maneuver to attempt two maneuvers at once...although again, why wouldn't you be able to do a supernatural strength punch that sacrificed some shifts of damage to put a maneuver on somebody....similar to the fuego suggestion above)?

Yeah.  The way I read that scene is physical and mental stress boxes clear while they start a social conflict.  No recovery on consequences occurs (unless you have some kind of magical recovery power, which Carlos and Harry did not) because no medicine/shoulder to cry on stuff happens, and if you take social consequences they affect the upcoming battle scene so you've got to be a bit careful in the scene where the PC's want to convince Marcone (and others) to rescue the folks they care about.