I went ahead and revamped the Life Tap spell. It's updated on the first post now. I also made a video to share the results with those not sure about trying these out. This one took me a while, I had to throw some things out and revamp other effects to make it classic. All effects now begin immediately during and after the cast. There were no delays in classic. Here's what I did:
For the caster: Level 1 has a smaller radius of small particles going outward. Level 24 has a wide radius of small-medium size particles. Level 39 has larger particles that move faster and outward from the caster. I used several sources to make sure this was classic, including videos.
For the target: Level 1 has small particles moving inward as well as the big center particle. Level 24 gets a stream of particles floating upward. These both last about 3-4 seconds while the medium waist particles at level 39 will last about twice as long as they did in classic.
They all use classic particles now which look sharper to me.
Video:
http://youtu.be/Kz9AIf5_ISA
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