Maul has always been decent, and was more dominant than now before the release of the Scimitar class (which used kill it easily). Now you are lucky if you do 10% dmg or even survive as Scimitar after full comboing a reforged gear Maul.

So reforged system is the main culprit, people with good RNG or creditcards can create incredibly good weapons and armor. Base stats for gold reforged epic schematics are insane, coupled with 500+ dmg and 500+ pen plus 10+ in random stats. Even base reforged purple armor gives you massive boosts, so ofcourse old gear timmys will get 2 tapped by good rolled Mauls who Forge of War into Earthsplitter. The same problem exists with Muskets, Longbows with good weapons too.