But what im saying is.... I never had one drop. After 15+ of the other I still never saw even one. SO clearly not exactly the same situation, or at least drop rate. I killed just as many knuckledusters, they share the same spawn.
Did you farm it from the quest spawn, or did it drop normally from a different spawn point?
edit- I've never said the cleavers cant proc, but after like 100 plus or so being farmed over multiple people you'd think at least one would have bumped up. I've not seen anything that resistant to luck since patch day.... maybe it's broken?
maybe the cleaver is just "too easy" to farm and was removed from the epic table?