Keep me interested.
Legendary weapons deal the same amount of damage as exotics, have the same stats as exotics…
There already ARE weapons that exist between typical exotics and legendaries, far simpler things you can gather and toss into the forge to guarente an exotic with a very unique skin (or craft one if you want a weapon coated in ice of molten rock).
Get a commander tag and you can make a 10 man group.
It would be insanely annoying to have things pop up in the middle of the screen constantly, why not just remind your friends to pay the heck attention to green colors at the bottom left of the screen?
There is a simple thing to click on in BLT to get back to your previous search results exactly as you had them. Just click the text at the bottom that literally has a small arrow and says “return to search results”.