Achernar wrote:
It is possible to gate from a cabal HQ area. The room inside the HQ nearest the wilderness exit always has been open to summons, teleport, gates, rifts, and recall. This makes it totally possible to take tribunal guards into any HQ they are at war with including the Harlequin.
Yes, but that means that the only way you can attack the Teron HQ and bring your tribunal NPCs with you is if you are in the Guardians/Peacekeepers (high cha gate NPC access) or if you have a priest/sorc/hellion/necro/rift scroll/gate wand with you.
Only Teron's HQ has that requirement -> all of the other ones allow you to simply declare war in enemy territory and walk right over. Even the Crucible HQ allows you to simply declare war on the Empire and fly over alongside your tribunal NPC.
It might not seem like a huge advantage to you, but it is a huge advantage. It is a very common situation that two lighties will want to break a cabal HQ but they won't have a priest/sorc/gate wand, especially considering that 2.5 of the 6 things I mentioned are "darky only" in some respects.