Torpor has a melee slow but does not strip haste due to occupying a different buff slot type. Offhand I can't recall whether haste can be applied whilst torpor is running...I don't really try to do that. I'm thinking of how some DOT effects do not strip regen, but regen can't be applied while the debuff is on.
Shamans were solo'ing west wastes dragons in 2001 much as they do on P99. Not very many of them, due to EQ back then having drastically fewer high level players as a proportion of the player base, but they were there. It wasn't so widely known. The culture of the community was different and people tended to keep quieter about "OP-feeling" tactics out of fear of Sony nerfing stuff if it became too common.
If anything helps shamans on P99 it's that root arguably holds too consistently and can definitely be applied to too many targets at once.
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