I agree that the weakening of Shamans is uncalled for.
If you get slept by anyone who has a group you really are in deep #### and better be good at getting out of that sort of situation. -con damnation + rot is just one of the many ways that the group might use to attempt to ensure your death. Does not make it overpowered.

If in fact you only get one damn now, what I was saying is that I hope the change was made with great consideration of:
1. Having a sleeper in your group should be a reward for RP and is not an easy thing to do without RP unless you are a cheat.
2. Of all the useless damnations that there are you have to be lucky to get the one you want without using up all your mana. Unless you know some secret that incognito seems to know and has now got me beating my brains out.

If you get all the damns you like but will only get each type once I could probably live with that, exept that you might waste mana only to be told that 'he is already more ugly than usual due to the burden of the damned'.

Seems like the thief+Shaman combo in someones opinion must have fit into the OverPowered definition. One of the criteria I believe was extremely difficult to avoid, as recently discussed on another forum there are a number of ways to avoid death or at least being looted.

I guess I'm just upset I apparently had something overpowered available to my char and never was able to take advantage of it.
Now it seems like it may have been taken away.