To answer your question, no EoTN is not dead. I was in the outpost Eye of the North and it was packed with people. Importatn is that you pick a good district. Only European - english district (eed) and america - english district (aed) is active. Due to serverissues did many (but not all) eed players switch to aed.
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And I don't want to play with henchmen, because I play MMOs to play with other people.
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Forget it. Guildwars started as a game that could be played with henchman and where you didn't need help of others. But playing with others ment things where a lot easier. In the past they slowly changed it. First with the introduction with heroes. Later with the possibility to bring 7 heroes instead of 3. For the purpose of finding a group of random people to simply play the game this changed a lot. 95% of the people are not willing to spent 30 minutes of time to find a group of people to play with and the other 5% just gave up on trying soon enough.
There are pug's forming however. but not on this stage of the game.
The first are the daily zaishen tasks (a bounty, a mission and a vanguish). Wich is different everyday and given in the outpost "embark beach" to be able to participate you need to be able to do it in hard mode (having finished the campaign where the task is, so preferable all).
Second is speedclears of UW, FoW and DoA. This agin needs hard mode. Besides that those pugs are really elite and demand specifick builds and people who are willing to learn those to play (e.g. spent time on youtube to watch tutorials bout how to play your role).
For GW2 I'm happy to say that the developers saw the light and didn't put a hero system in.