once more since it appears to be a difficult concept for some to grasp:
Stop mentioning Gain-EXP results as being fake if all you do is sell shields. Until you start selling prize powder and warping the second
accolades are capped,
not sparks, you'll never match the numbers being mentioned. If you're only selling shields, good luck breaking 8mil/gain per char, and realistically more like 6-7mil/gain per char.
In the time you fill sparks to dump you could have filled accolades twice. This means the kills that you take home 1 mil in shields gil from, those of us selling both accolades and sparks have taken home 3 mil. More dump time yes, but not impossible and still far ahead of just converting shields.