In "true" classic dot stacking worked like this.
Druids: No two dots of the same line could stack, ie; drones couldn't stack with stinging swarm. The higher level spell always overwrote the lower one. I know this without a doubt as I played a druid from late beta till Kunark time and kiting took a long time. You could however stack a drones type with the flame type. Right now Druids are highly overpowered with their DoTs due to this oversight.
Shamans: Dots of the same line could stack, though not the same ones obviously. You could load up 3 poison DoTs and 3 disease DoTs if you were so inclined and was what made the Shaman the king of DoTs. It works this way on the server thankfully. EB + VoTS + Plague + Affliction is nasty.
Necros: I'm not 100% sure of this but I believe it was similar to druids. One spell from each line of DoTs, but thankfully necro's had different lines so could always stack them up.
When multiple people of any type try to use the same DoT on a mob what's supposed to happen is the higher level player spell overwrites the lower players. Right now... well let's just say a group of Shaman could destroy the Dino in OOT with 6x EB + Plague.
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