How much does a suit of visible vendor bought plate cost?

[Ahris]

For most players there will eventually not be much to do than sit in Guk/SolB and gather vendor junk most of the time. The Steel plate prices are ment as a money sink for high level players.

[randal.flagg]

I thought fine plate was added in w/ the crafting rework pretty early on. Where did you find that?

Maybe you are thinking of cultural armor.