I consider myself somewhat of a wayback nerd researcher, gotta say anything relating to shaman dot stacking is very hard to find prior to 2001, most of the problems come from the fact you can find a website archived in 1999 or 2000, but when you click on a link of a spell, or post, whathave you, wayback will attempt to find the earliest crawl for that specific link, which could be 2 years in the future. This doesnt mean the page didnt exist in 1999, it just means the first crawl of it was 2 years later... frustrating.
Anyhow! My first find... its from a class guide from eqstratics. No, this is not impressive or gasping proof of anything, but its a decent guide. Dated April 27, 2000 ( 3 days after kunark release ). The actual url will not link, gives 404 error, click this link, then find the shaman class forum link, and click it. its the first link named "shaman guide" The quote below is from the first post in the shaman forum.
http://web.archive.org/web/200005200...m/classes.html
The highlight is this quote:
4/27/00 04:41 AM
Re: Shaman guide
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Most of our DoTs are stackable with each other. With other classes DoTs too.
Ok so this could be interpreted many ways, but I highly doubt the guy meant 1 poison and 1 disease dot stack with each other when he says "most". I am also going to conclude that even though this post is technically Kunark era, the guy is obviously talking about his experience in the past.... not past 3 days =) take it for what it is.. Im not saying its testament to anything, but quite interesting.
Interestingly, there is another post called " Stacking dots" on the Shaman main page, which begs the question, if shaman could only stack 1 poison and 1 disease dot, why would this post even exist? Unfortunataly there was never a crawl for that page, which would have prolly ended this debate.
My search continues....