Melee while casting?

[saevel]

Stuff like spikes spells and additional effects activating are not the same. If anything is close to remotely proving Saevel wrong, it would be that you can swap gear while casting, but I'm not sure that is really all that damning to his statements.

Moving from that, I think that more abilities like Occult Acumen would be more likely then melee while casting. I suppose the question is, why don't Red Mages have it, and why isn't there a variant for Ninjitsu, Blue Magic, Divine Magic?

Again people are thinking what you see on your client is what's happening, it's not. Your animation has ZERO to do with whats going on server side, only how your client process's actions. Casting a spell is at least two actions, the start and the stop, as is your auto-attacking (although attack round starts are invisibly processed by the server). Only thing your client controls is movement, and even that is sometimes controlled by the server.