Earth wands were replaced with Poison wands that receive bonus damage from Geomancer ability.
Oh, so I guess that means that undead enemies are now no longer immune to poison. That's another fascinating change.
...That is what it means, right? Because surely in a game with RNG loot you wouldn't purposefully delete 25% of the possible wands from fighting enemies which make up the majority of the enemies on the second half of the island, right?
Otherwise, I fail to see how changing earth damage to poison is an improvement.