We wouldn't know, he didn't pop for us yesterday. We killed JoL in the time between the first update and the emergency update and AV was nowhere to be found.
Looks like SE really has just given up on sea completely and has no plans to actually fix anything or even just make it a little more bearable (ie consistent).
At least JoL dropped both earrings, I would have bet almost anything we'd pull a nice halberd-only drop.
This was on Leviathan server by the way. That makes AV JP only for our server so far.