I <3 Ballista.
Alot of the NA's that I have talked to about Ballista don't like PvP.. at all. JP still play in regular Ballista regularly, but lately alot more matches have been getting cancelled.
Thanks to the introduction of Brenner and Diorama-Ballista (yea that one), there is no need for the people who do enjoy ballista to try to make the regular matches. Not to mention, there is a TON of content in this game and ballista is not usually anywhere near the top 20 things to do. There probably needs to be a bigger incentive to get more ppl interested in it.
If you want to do a ballista, the best way I have found is to reserve a time slot in one of the ones you set up and recruit people from your LS or shout prior to the start of the match.
Edit: Forgot to add that alot of people don't know what time and level ballista is. Many still don't even know about the ballista announcement earring either (the name escapes me).
Edited, Nov 24th 2006 3:54pm by sixgauge