The trouble is that Egwene does not really practise hardcore all that much more than Nynaeve does, less even I would say since she is so busy with politics. She is an expert at dreaming to be sure, but not at channeling. I cannot recall any scenes where Egwene is shown to be practising hard at channeling, nor a scene where she is shown to do something truly unique and spectacular.

I am not saying that she is a weak or pathetic channeler, but neither is she elite. What she is, is average. She is a good dreamer, and a relatively clever politician. But nowhere do I get the impression that she is a master-channeler. And infact we see this very fact during the Seanchan attack when even with a sa'angreal, she uses basic fireballs and air-weaves. Compare that to say Rand during the Stone attack with another sa'angreal (callandor) and the construct he created to kill trollocs and you will actually see a master at work (though that was obviously LTT rather than Rand).



The section says: "dividing her flows fourteen ways".

A weave is a construct of OP that can be made using 1 or more flows. In this instance, Egwene actually creates 7 weaves, with each weave composed of 2 flows (Fire and Air). These are the color effects (for each ajah).

What Rand/LTT does is create 12 weaves. But each of his weaves is composed of 3 different flows. So 36 flows to produce 12 weaves. Rather than Egwenes 14 flows. What Rand does is FAR beyond what Egwene does here.

It is true that Egwene is under forkroot, but from the way it is written, I got the impression that the only difference forkroot makes here is that the glowing-balls she creates are weak and transparent. And infact, during the Seanchan attack, we dont see her do even 14 actual attack weaves at once, even with the help of a link and a sa'angreal. That suggests that rather than being good at multitasking, the stress of battle distracts her and prevents her from doing what she did in the safety of the classroom.



When comparing what Rand/LTT did during the trolloc attack in KoD to what Egwene did (with a link and a sa'angreal!) during the Seanchan attack, Egwene comes off as utterly pathetic.

Nynaeve would kick her ass easily.