You needed to meet minimum level requirement which in Classic could take a significant amount of time for Manastone and Guise, weeks or even months.
Then you needed to get to the camp, typically not difficult with minimal help. Then you would /list and be placed in queue. Every few minutes a box would appear and you needed to type in a code from that box and you got no confirmation if the code was right. Missed two or three tries and you'd get booted from the list. I can't recall if disconnect would get you booted from the list. Then the people there would clear placeholder spawns until the named one did and only sometimes it would drop the item in question which then could only be looted by the person first in line. It could be streaky, e.g. some people waited 12 hrs for JBoots and others 48hrs. In more compeitive camps like Manastone some players are said to have waited 4 days or even more. The only way anyone could realistically do this is through cheating or account sharing. Sitting for that long at age 40+ poses significant risk of venous thrombosis and death. If /list didn't kill anyone yet it can be expected to should it return.
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