Come up with a good role and pray to Kasty. Have a neat angle on things, and just outshine them all, then take commander and change things. Problem solved.

Now on to more constructive points I suppose.
The whole battle history thing? Meh I hated that too I think its moronic. All it does is it stops the newblits from playing battle smash characters.
If your a vet and you want to play a battle smash char you just go recite some crap to treebeard and Poof you have a rec no matter how badly you suck, or how much of an asshat you are.

And I agree with the Acaga part I was Iborenn and man I think ragers gotten really ####ing cowardly.