You could choose to have one profession either armor crafting or weapon crafting. You could have really rare exotic and legendary armor plans and weapon plans drop throughout the world. It would add a little color having multiple sets of armor that get you to max level.
Edit: Please leave comments with feedback. Even if you vote no, you may have a better idea.
Edit: Also, a special type of material could be added to the raid maps, like instead of just spirit bloom in vog, it could be something like ascendant spirit bloom thats required to make these craftable items... or enriched helium in crota raid.
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I like the idea but everyone knows what's going to happen if this was ever to be implemented. First all the PVPers would call for a nerf to anything that a player made and killed them. Meaning you may have spent a ton of time gathering materials and leveling up your profession only for it to be the same worth as the legendaries old by vendors. Second a lot of people are too lazy to go out and gather materials so they would complain it's too hard to gather and [u]demand[/u] Bungie to just give it to them. Because that's how a lot of these players are.