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Curious to get some feedback on a situation that arose during my last session. The caster choose to move away from melee as a move action in order to provoke AoO from the threatening creatures. He then finished his move action by returned to the original square where he started his turn. He then used his standard action to cast color spray. The rational behind his move was he didn't mind risking the chance of taking dmg from the AoO in order to avoid having to cast defensively or risking the chance of taking dmg from the AoO provoked from casting and risk failing the resulting concentration check.
My understanding is that he would not have to make a concentration check as the damage did not occur during the casting of the spell.
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/magic.html#_injury-while-casting
He would also not have to cast defensively as the creatures had used their AoO during his move and did no possess Combat Reflexes.
My question is: is there anything in RAW that would specifically disallow this? Is it effectively within RAW to allow a caster to burn his move action and take AoO in order to guarantee he can cast his spell without a chance of failure (assume he lives thru the AoO)?
FWIW, He actually did this same move twice. The second time, the creature in melee decline to use AoO when he used his move action, thus keeping it available for use if he reentered melee and attempted to cast.