Eardweller Drop Chance Raise?

[Clemeit]

I know that there is a thread devoted to the Xachosian Eardweller and that the drop chance is 1.5% on Hard and 3% on Elite.
Question is, was the drop chance upped after the new updates? Took me 31 runs on cleric and 25-30 runs on sorcerer (elite runs) to get it. Told a few friends about recently, so two of them went off and about 20 minutes later both of them had it. It dropped 2nd run (on hard) and 3rd run (also hard).... Two runs in a row at 1.5% seems very unlikely.
Another friend asked and I told him as well. About 10 minutes later he sends me a tell linking it, saying he got it on first hard run.
So any confirmation that the drop chance was upped? 1.5% and 3 drops all within 3 runs seems nigh impossible. Don't want to sound like I'm QQ-ing about this but, for all the people who REALLY worked hard for it, great. But if the drop chance is so high that it becomes a normal item that everyone has, what's the point?
Also, any specific way to talk directly to the devs about this? Would love to know why the drop chance went up (assuming it did).

-Thanks