I agree that the battle felt small. After all of the knowledge we've accumulated in regards to the use of the One Power in battle, all we get are both sides standing across a field and massive, uncoordinated weaving and a throwaway line from Galad that the power of all those channelers was incredible?

There are wards, counter-wards, reversing weaves, direct weaves, indirect weaves, elemental weaves, gateways, etc., yet the channelers conveniently stood on one side of the battlefield for the most part, and didn't use a tenth of the tricks we've seen in smaller battles throughout the series.

I can't blame Sanderson; I have my own imagination to fill in the blanks, but the lack of specificity regarding numbers and the lack of creative strategies was underwhelming.

Heck, I'm even willing to buy that Androl/Pevara's mutual link was in RJ's notes, but this is precisely the type of knowledge that should have been used in the last and most decisive hour of fighting in defense of reality. If Egwene had Bonded Logain after blasting Taim, then proceeded to blast Demandred to oblivion or better yet, Shield him for trial, I would have been happy. Icing on the cake would have been the White Tower delivering Moghedien to the Seanchan as a punishment. There were just so many ways to make multiple scenarios escalate so that the resolution was at a crescendo in the story, but yet the payoffs were just so bland.

Ah well. I don't mind Cadsuane, but I do think it would have been fitting if something came of her resolution with the Wise Ones that Graendal needed to be taken down, even if it was Aviendha who ultimately did it. The scene had gravitas, but the energy was allowed to disperse.

For a book with so many battle scenes, it was particularly unsatisfying to me.