Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
From what I remember (it would have been no earlier than phase 1 of the Beta as the Alpha did not feature minions) it was because players found it annoying to tab target when minions were out in dungeons, with clusters of minions all close together made targeting frustrating as anything, especially for healers
That...seems a bit overkill for a simple thing issue that could be easily solved by not allowing tab targetting on minions (just like the OP said and pretty much any mmorpg on the planet does).
It's like killing a patient because his legs were broken....who does that? xD