I have made Ornate chain on Druzzil Ro server and the stats for the price it costs to make are awful. A Ornate chain Tunic has 16 ac where banded has 15 ac , it takes 1-3 large bricks of High Quality ore that only drops / brought in High hold keep . These cost me over 25pp per large brick ( using sneak for indifferent faction ) so it costs over 80pp included tunic pattern and the silver bar required to make them. Which is almost the same as fine steel plate , only reason i can think of it is that its slighter cheaper then plate so u could skill up ur smithing with it
Only other cool think is the Ore is also a MoB drop in High hold keep so u can sometimes pick some up cheap form players but the trip to qeynos to convert the ore to Rings is really not worth it :(:(:(:(:(