not dead...just not as popular as before. too many changes in a short period of time and people were not able to adapt quickly..for me the AP **** ruined my taste in pking...they removed the healing pots thing and that kinda sucked since they also made the outside of mod pk free...i used to be able to start clogs in the corridors of mod but now everytime a noob gets to .5 they always run outside of mod cause they know i wont be able to kill them..i think this is why people start small small camps to sword spam cause they get discouraged in pking in the new towers..