Stunning Blow - Why does it target breakables.

[Ordinary]

I want to rant about the way stunning blow and other tactics like trip target breakables over mobs first. Lets look at a couple of scenarios:

1. A fighter tries to use stunning blow on a mob next to a breakable. breakable steals stunning blow attack. mob is not hit in any way.
2. The same for trip.

Could you imagine if

a wizard casts Finger of Death on a mob standing next to a breakable. The breakable steals the FOD.
a cleric casts destruction. all the breakables are destroyed.

How much uproar would that cause and why do melee tactics work in this way?

Rant over.

[MasterAO]

Turn off auto-target breakables in the in game options?

[Cantor]

Turn off auto-target breakables in the in game options?

Yup. There is a prioritize interaction over combat option somewhere that might help to turn off.

[guzzlr]

Turn off auto-target breakables in the in game options?

Hitting breakables over bad guys (unless the bad guys are specifically targeted) with tactics has been around for a long time. I have no version of auto-target enabled, and I have "combat takes precedence over non-combat" selected in options. It still makes no difference. When I hit stunning blow/fist it will go out of its way to hit any "nearby" breakable in the area (even if that breakable is well away from the mob).

Oddly, my anecdotal evidence is that it usually hits breakables on the left side of the mob over breakables to the right.

[Ordinary]

Hitting breakables over bad guys (unless the bad guys are specifically targeted) with tactics has been around for a long time.

Actually it hits the breakable even if you have a bad guy hard targeted.