I agree 100% with this. When I need to buy shards I know I'm supporting RMT, and I feel sick about it. But because of how low they charge for them, they've cornered the market on them. No non botter would ever sell them for as low as GHFDHJ HGFYKJM does. Therefore almost no non botter even bothers gathering them.

They need to either remove shards like suggested here, or give us new abilities to gather them faster. The latter would encourage me to actually gather them myself, but as it stands now I would rather watch paint dry.