Looking at the patch notes on the wiki mentioning,
I think some of it was an unintentional bug based on the wording.
Quote:
November 16, 2000
Today's follow-up patch addresses the following issues from yesterday's patch
* The spell Torpor received an unintentional reduction in effectiveness.
January 17, 2001
* Last week's patch attempted to fix Celestial Elixir, Celestial Healing, and Torpor, so that they would stack another similar spell, unintentionally causing it to stop stacking with standard regeneration spells. This has been fixed. The downside to this fix is that these spells will now overwrite the "Call of Bones" series. As the three former spells are cast to save a character's life, this solution appears to be the most beneficial for all of those involved.
February 21, 2001
*Created a new spell effect for Celestial Healing, Celestial Elixir, and Torpor. This will allow them to stack with all other spells, save spells of the same type (Heal over time). Prior to this, all heal-over- time spells followed the same rules as regeneration spells.
August 15, 2001
Some stacking issues with Torpor have been corrected.
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Originally Posted by Nirgon
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I don't ever remember the torpor soloing I see here done in era even through Velious. I didn't play a shaman though so I left this alone. Interesting reads. Whatever is classic, do that.
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There were far less people playing shaman back in the day. It was viewed as a weak or strange class. It's hard for many who have played P99 to look back and remember this.