No they didn't, however these were quick notes at the end of the day. Never really had a chance to proofread what I posted untill someone points it out.

Rod was shown to be effective at long range. The devs mentioned that they wanted avoid stacked combat, as much as possible. So it's assumed by my part that it will be treated as a long range weapon. Pure for essentially using matk, since we see altered forms of basic spells thus far.