I think closing off Paramis and BBW is a bad idea. Faction grinding is the worst grind in the game. None us knows when the next wipe, or even faction reset, will occur which makes investing in this kind of grind unreasonable. I did it in live and I have no desire to repeat that awful grind. At least in live we didn't have to contend with wipes, excepting for the sunset which none of us was happy with. I thought having the Paramis gate open was a nice compromise. It granted access but wasn't convenient, and if anyone was nuts enough to grind out faction they'd get the benefit of using the other gates for entry. Not all the endgame content is available yet so this just cuts it back even further. As I said, faction grinding is an unreasonable burden for stresstesting, and I don't see how it helps in a stresstest anyway. Please reconsider.