Are rods gone?

[Shtopit]

As per question. Are rods gone? What of their effects? I think they were OK for melee users.

[PleasingFungus]

some of them (the ones with the coolest effects) turned into wands, one of them turned into a misc item, some of them are just gone.

the effects were (and are) cool, but the ui wasn't very good.

[njvack]

Yeah, and the whole "conjurations except you train evocations" was maybe not a design slot that needed filling. Wands are solidly in the "consumable evocables" realm which is a more well-defined niche, IMO.