It does make zero sense that they would go and add a random item like this to drop from a random named they picked in the zone years later, rather than having it drop all the time and it just went without discovery for a long period of time.
It's not like they went on a big mission to fill the loot tables of all these other mobs in the game more thoroughly with extremely rare drops, on a whim, an expansion later while working on future expansions and ironing out VT drama.
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