Im a GM at a private server and the other day i found out how the guys got their S5 gear so damn fast. (on our server we exhange S5 for EoV)
Our server has a character transfer system that allows people to transfer their characters between accounts. If your server have this system you can easily gear your char really fast.
-Make multiple accounts (20-30)
-Vote each day on all of them for about a week
-Choose random lvl80 char
-Transfer random lvl80 char to one of your accounts and use the votershop to get EoV/whatever
-Repeat with the rest of the accounts.
If you make 15 accounts you get 15 VP per 12h = after a week you have 210 VP with 15 minutes of work every 12h.