Why is a Lamentation better than a Jade Mace?

[Drosis]

Lets not forget looks too. Lammy > jade mace imo.

Also, aren't items status symbols?

[Enderenter]

Lammy was a status symbol on live. Here, it's a Ranger item, or maybe a low-end Warrior item. I sure don't see many tanks using them - and the price reflects that.

Granted, Jade Mace has crashed faster despite being an overall more useful weapon, and I have no idea why.

The bottom line is that both weapons are vastly inferior to what they were on live, partially due to more players having RMoY/BotBDE, but mostly due to how aggro works on here (vs live). You just can't hold aggro without a proc - seemingly much more so on here than on live.