i noticed this too. my Light's justice has more dmg than my crystalforged but the 40 spell dmg barely gives my crystalforged an edge. _________________
to be honest. I may actually start looking at healing maces as tanking maces. Havent really looked around yet to see how viable this would be. _________________
A healing mace is only a viable weapon choice if it's *much* higher level than your spell damage option. For example, Light's Justice is an ilevel 125 epic: it has 7 more spell damage than ilevel 115 rares and is a worse overall tanking weapon due to the lack of stamina. Healing weapons aren't good choices for tanking, with a solitary exception that I got to play around with for the first time last night