Is it conceivable that very few or none dropped between April 24, 2000 (release) and Oct. 4, 2000 (date in OP)? Is it also conceivable that if a pair did drop that the receiving guild did not publicize it? Is it also conceivable that if it did have the right click turn into Cleric hammer effect, that the initial pairs were lost?
Magelo has a current drop rate of 6% on the gloves, which honestly seems high.
Let's be generous and say 1 VS a week between April 24, 2000 and Oct. 4, 2000 = ~5 months or 20 weeks or 20 VS.
There were ~36 servers, including test, by Velious' release.
Being extremely generous, that gives us 720 VS kills by Oct. 4, 2000 across all the servers. In actuality, it was maybe half that many VS kills in the relevant time frame.
720 VS * 6% = ~43 gloves per drop slot (VS has two possible drop spots), so about 90 gloves over all considering both drop slots.
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