It is tough, indeed. Slightly weaker than Celestial Fury through most of SoA, since once an opponent is stunned for two rounds, he is pretty much dead, so blindness and wandering about with morale failure doesn't really enter into it, but much more powerful through ToB levels, since CF victims of around 14th level will be failing only on a 1 by then, while the Mace victims will fail twice as often (assuming no save, of course). OTOH, Doom and Greater Malison are wonderful additions to parties with a CF user, but would have virtually no effect with the mace.
Guess it depends on whether you consider CF overpowered or not.
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