In the beginning, the Forsaken were these Mysterious Evil Figures who met in dream-worlds, were really strong, had access to Age of Legends time capsules, and knew everything about the One Power.

But now, The World of Dreams is so commonplace that going there is like walking down the street for a quart of milk.

The Light Side has a bunch of strong channelers.

Those time capsules have mostly just contained old knick-knacks, relatively speaking. Yeah, the gholam is pretty bad ass, but barring a few angreal that's all they got.

Rand has AoL training from both Asmodean and LTT. The Aes Sedai got their training from Mogheidan.


So... basically, the Forsaken are just people, now. Evil people, sure, and an enemy channeler is nothing to sneeze at, but they're not an unknown. We know exactly what they are, and the answer is, "Pretty much just like us."

So yeah, pretty much the only edge the Forsaken have anymore is in setting up traps.