I played a magician for five years, and knew the mechanics of such in depth.
Spells definitely did cause a large amount of aggro even if they resisted.
Pets definitely did gain aggro for misses.
As for players with melee, I couldn't tell you for sure. I do remember that scenario with the bats happening to me, though. Regardless, I could tell you there would be problems with aggro on raids if players did not get aggro for their misses. Can you imagine what trying to hold aggro on the Avatar of War would be like if all your misses didn't count for anything? Every nuker would die pretty fast.
Although that bat scenario did happen to me, I do believe that it might have been a fluke, or the aggro mechanics might have changed since we were newbies.
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