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Balefire's not even that bad, unless you're the Dragon Reborn and can balefire back more than a couple minutes.
That's not really fair. Balefire didn't get its bad reputation from Rand wiping out cities with it until the universe destabilized.
My point was that you have to be a ridiculously powerful wielder of the One Power before being able to weave balefire stronger than a nuke. There's probably only a handful of people in the series that can do it, now that the Choedan Kal is broken.
But there's no shortage of people who could accomplish it cooperatively, if you get male and female channelers working together.
I'm sure that in Wheel of Time there were plenty of ways to obliterate a city with the One Power back in the Age of Legends. The issue isn't that it can obliterate cities, but that if you use it for wholesale destruction like that, unlike, say, explosions, it fucks up the very fabric of reality.
Just get a circle of men and women...
No evidence that circle can weave balefire. But haven't read books after Crossroads, so maybe it appears later.
Is there any evidence that there are things which can be woven individually which can't be woven by circles? I don't remember any.