The impression I always got was that the wolves used the wolfdream to hunt, but weren't especially lethal in it. They seemed to be intuitively one with the Dream, but not necessarily more powerful - they were still animalistic in their use of it, and thus, limited in a place that reflected conscious thought and will.

It seemed to me that the Wise Ones and Dreamwalkers were of such a greater order of magnitude more powerful than the wolves due to their human consciousness that there really isn't a comparison. A single, relatively single-minded Dreamer (Slayer) was easily a match for multiple wolves and that destroyed any concept that they were a match for a human in this arena. While certain activities in T'A'R could be considered unethical for the Wise Ones, that doesn't negate their tactical capability to use these powers.

I got the exact opposite view from the series overall: the wolves were meant to counter the darkhounds in the Wolfdream since the darkhounds are so much more powerful in the real world, while any large-scale, human battles in Tel'Aran'Rhiod were meant to be fought by the Wise Ones. In some ways, the Wise Ones surrounded T'A'R with prohibitions that Egwene has to work around in order to re-discover Skimming, increase her mastery of it and bring her skill level closer to the Forsaken and beyond the Wise Ones. As we've seen, though the Wise Ones had superior experience and tactics, Egwene ended up destroying an enemy they might not have been able to defeat using their methods. In this regard, as in their prohibitions against fighting enemies using the One Power, they resemble Aes Sedai, and this seems more like an ultra-conservative philosophy of what should be done in Tel'Aran'Rhiod versus what a Dreamwalker was capable of.

While some of Egwenes' skills as a Dreamer are introspective, such as True Dreams and prophetic glimpses, it would be a forcible over-generalization to say that all of them are passive. Just because the nature of the place is immaterial and spiritual doesn't mean that the place is meant to be entirely passive.