Maybe the people here are stupid? Just because a lot of people who have no real knowledge of a character claim he is superior does not make it so. Your comparison here is so incomplete and illegitimate it hurts my brain.

Because they're evil. Evil people have different priorities and despite what our effete popular culture might preach, there is no direct correlation between willingness to kill and morality. Terry Pratchett, in one of his Discworld books has Sam Vimes (generally agreed to be one of those "voice of the author" characters) assert that if you are ever held at swordpoint, pray that your captor is an evil man, because a good man who has a reason to think you are an enemy will simply kill you, because that is the right thing to do with enemies. Evil people are open to compromise or bribery or even mere sadism, which gives you a longer life expectancy (for better of for worse).

Much of the building up of the Forsaken has been in the minds of the same readers who declare LTT the superior character and leader on the basis of absolutely zero evidence.

Name a Forsaken who has had the good guys as a direct captive for more than a couple of minutes. Or ANY WoT character, besides Rand, who has ever told people everything. In any event, they ARE realistic villains.

In the first place you're wrong, since Lanfear's desire for the Choedan Kal is demonstrated thoroughly, Sammael and Moghedian were both involved in the hunt for the Ebou Dar cache, the latter apparently at MORIDIN'S orders (did you forget that she was worried about his displeasure when she balefired Nynaeve's boat before dashing off to "make Falion & Ispan crawl"? ), and Graendal sneaked into Sammael's quarters, evading Rand & the Asha'man to steal an angreal. The allied trio was also concerned about aquiring angreal but as they noted in LoC, all the known ones were already secured, and it was not worth the risk of discovery or capture.

The Forsaken are smart enough to realize how little angreal matter anyway. None of them want to pull off the sort of massive feats that require the strongest sa'angreal anyway, since they want to rule the world, not destroy it. As they note in their reasons for avoiding the Great Holding, Rhuidean and the Tower storerooms, even a weak and relatively untrained channeler can kill a highly trained and immensely powerful one (See Moiraine vs. Bel'al). This is not some computer role-playing game where "experience" & increased ability & power give you more points of damage to both dish out per attack and absorb without dying. An angreal is merely a slight upgrade and offers you no real protection. If they had a chance, they'd certainly grab one, but it is not worth taking serious risks to aquire.

Are you so incredibly retarded that you missed the point where MORIDIN DOES NOT WANT RAND DEAD?!?! And what ELSE do you do with two highly-trained and top-percentile powered slaves, besides send them on errands? The essential thing for every Forsaken is survival. They betrayed humanity and the Light for the chance to never die. That gives them absolutely zero desire to take risks. Two Forsaken he can send to do his bidding and avoid exposure or even the slightest chance of getting killed by someone with an itchy trigger finger is an absolutely perfect use for them from Moridin's, or any other character's perspective!

Did you even read the part where she mentioned how everything is warded and counted twice a day? Her primary mission is staying in place to manipulate the White Tower, the most powerful polity or organization in the world. That is far more important than a private power boost. When has she ever failed at a task for lack of strength in the One Power? As for the rape thing, she had no choice. It was a Dark One mandated punishment. If she fought back, she would be guilty of treason against the Dark One. If she exposed herself to grab a personal-use angreal, and the Shadow lost its top operative inside the Tower, do you think the Dark One/Shadar Haran would be any more merciful?

Right! Because of all the Seanchan attacks on the Tower that have created equivalent opportunities for a snatch and grab! THEY ARE WARDED. And even if they are not, the Forsaken believe they are (it could very well have been a lie by Mesaana who did not want her rivals taking them), and as I explained above, it isn't worth the risk of getting made by a sister.

The Aiel hide their channeling and don't fight and view the artifacts in Rhuidean as sacred relics that are not for their touch or use. The Kin operate under novice rules and novices are certainly forbidden to use objects of the Power. The Kin's highest priority is to remain hidden and avoid attention. There are certainly going to be Aes Sedai in the city on a frequent basis, it being the largest harbor in the world and an important port and center of commerce. A Kinswoman wielding a sa'angreal would be found out in a minute, and their secret goes up in smoke.

Becuase you are a spoiled child who cannot grasp the concept of delayed gratification, or that there might be more important things than self-indulgence. The Forsaken have objectives higher than sitting around giggling about how powerful they are and proudly inventorying their stash of powerful toys. As for your comparison to two vastly inferior series' villains, what SoI&F character has indulged in greater perversions than Graendal or more sadistic acts than Semirhage or proved himself a general worthy of being called a Great Captain as Sammael and Demandred are alluded to be (and which has never been disproved in the series)? The "villains" in SoI&F are really nothing more than petty selfish lords who act on slights to their pride. There is not a villain in that series who has demonstrated capabilities to match the Forsaken. Tywin Lannister is the most intelligent, but there is zero evidence that he would work for the Dark One. He is lowercase evil and show absolutely no inclinations to megalomania or egotism run rampant that might lead him to seek out the Shadow to gain license for his self-indulgence.

Do you even realize where you are going with this? Adults are not frightened by the same things children are, because they know better. Voldemort is the monster under the bed, and his "terror" is simply a lust to run his old school. Of course it will be scary to the kids who have been taught to hate him and revere that school, but beyond the clandestine bitch-fights of the wizard world, he is no threat to take over the real world (for all their professed power and superiority, it is wizards who hide from muggles, and not the other way around - and wizards who are experts on the muggle world are hopeless inept at dealing with it, while wizards who are raised as muggles have no trouble grasping the essentials of the wizard community and becoming quite successful in it).

Duh. Who said they are supposed to be smart and elite? Just a bunch of idiot readers. Verin comes right out and TELLS Egwene (though she was almost certainly speaking more to us) that they are chosen for their selfish pettiness. They are not the top villians and are merely lackeys of the real menace, which is the Dark One. The Dragon was not reborn to fight the Forsaken, but to face the Dark One. The Forsaken would be nothing without their Great Lord, and even IF LTT was in fact, a greatly superior individual, leader, warrior, general and channeler to Rand, he was not losing to the Forsaken, but to the Dark One. The Dark One was free in the War of the Shadow, while in the current time he is still partially restrained by LTT's seals. RJ himself dismissed the Forsaken who were not sealed away with the Dark One as all being killed off and not even worthy of having their fall told. There has never been any suggestion in the story that they could win or even survive without the Dark One, and even if that is not enough, the fact that these treacherous, self-serving and arrogant individuals all jump to obey his commands and fall to their knees for him should tell you their own opinions of their power relative to his.

That is another contributing factor - they have no real urgency to fight and defeat Rand, because they know better than anyone the power of the Dark One and don't give Rand a snowball's chance in hell against him. As far as they're concerned, it's just a matter of time until their side wins, and they're main priority is both surviving until that day and winning the Dark One's favor so that he will reward them. Their goal is to be there to reap the rewards, not win your approval as badass supervillains.