There's little point in any other weapon type I find. Clubs and maces are good against everything except trolls, so shoot trolls with piercing arrows instead. They do a decent job at crowd control with their wide swing arc and stagger. Maces are fantastic in swamps. They then transition nicely into Frostner and Porcupine towards end-game. And you get to use shields with them.

Maybe when the next update hits there will be more biomes and enemies with different weaknesses to make other weapons more relevant. Until then, it's maces and bows for me!