Gem Armor
Generell Informations:
Gemstone Armor actually is shadow armor and comes in 3 different qualites. Lesser, Normal and Greater Armors and they exist for all 3 new types of armor (Koujia, Celdon and Amuli). To get those you need to collect some gems dropped by shadows and fragments, that need to be combined then and given to the proper smith (Each only creates the race-specific armor like the eastham high-lvl smith creates Celdon (Aluvian), the one in Al-Jalima creates Amuli (Gharun'dim) and the sho-smith creates Koujia.

Some facts:
1.) Gems dropped by shadows are dark speck, dark sliver and dark shard. You can combine them as follows: 2 dark specks = 1 dark sliver, 2 dark slivers = 1 dark shard.
2 dark shards = 1 shadow fragment.
2.) Gems dropped by fragments are cracked shard, tiny shard and small shard. You can combine them as follows: 2 cracked shards = 1 tiny shard, 2 tiny shards = 1 small shard, 2 small shards = 1 crystal fragment.
3.) The first gem given to a smith gets you the Leggings first and the Upper Body Armor you get with the 2. gem. Each smith remembers what you gave him, so giving one gem to Aluvian-smith and one gem to Sho-smith will result in haveing 2 leggings. Handing the same smith a glimmering and a sparkling gem for example will reuslt in haveing one lesser legging and one normal legging.
4.) Lesser Shadow Armor is made out of glimmering gems, Normal Shadow Armor is made out of Sparkling gems and Greater Shadow Armor is made out of Scintillating gems.
5.) Glimmering gems are made out of 1 small shard + 1 dark shard
6.) Sparkling gems are made out of 1 crystal fragment + 1 shadow fragment
7.) Scintillating gems are made out of 2 sparkling gems.
8.) AL of the greater armors are: Celdon 210, Koujia 195, Amuli 190. Elemental resists are average for all except lightning which is below avg.
9.) Dark Specks are dropped by shadow childs and shadows, Dark Slivers are dropped by Shadow LTs, Dark Shards are dropped by Panumbris and Umbris shadows.
10.) Cracked shards are dropped by Broken Fragments, Tiny Shards are dropped by Fragments, Small Shards are dropped by Dual Fragments.
11.) The average chance to get a gem is 1-5% approx..