Thread: Why is my staff 'bouncing'?

When I run/walk on my lore master, my staff, which usually sits firmly on my back, now bounces up and down with my strides. It looks very very very wrong, and what's worse is the 'glow' effect on legendary items (hideous enough as it is) doesn't seem to have caught onto this change and stays in position. So it's like the staff is popping in and out of it's glow effect, and sliding off and onto my back!

What is going on here? Is it just me??

I was going to make a thread on this if i could not see a bug section for the new update.

My lore-master staff bounces so much now when i run, it looks horrible not to mention sickly. The glow effect also flickers with each bounce. I really hope this is fixed soon because i can't deal with it lol I shall be running around with it off until it is needed for combat =\ I haven't noticed any other weapon bugs yet so not sure if it is just the lore-master staves for now.

I asked in GLFF and another LM said they hadn't any problems with it, but got a tell form a hunter who said his bow was doing the same!

Champ 2 hander is doing the same thing. The issue I imagine has come about because in the patch prior to this one (which I bug reported), they changed the position of all back-worn main weapons to be far too low and to the left. Sword stuck out about 2ft to the left and chopped peoples knees off as I ran by. In their effort to fix it, it appears they attached the weapons to a moving vertex that is moving with the character's skeleton instead of a static anchor point. The "glow" must be a separate entity to the weapon.

My advice to Turbine would be to put the weapon position back to where it was 2 patches ago, as it was perfect then.

My captain first age 75 greatsword is bouncing too, same with her second age greatsword.

All the 2h on the back of my toons bounce like wild.

It just looks awful

Was thinking first its new feature (really bad one if so - imho) its really annoying and looks bad :/

Warden on Bullroarer had bouncy spear/Javelin. Same Warden on live does not. :/

My lvl 59 LM on Eldar has the same irritating problem.

all my alts are doing it too, i had to log off it was irritating me so bad. hopefully they'll fix it soon, unless it IS a new thing they're trying o.o i really hope not cause it gives me a headache lol

This wobbly weapon bug/feature/whatever is really strange to look at.

I'm writing here it because it is still not in the known issues list...

Hope this get's fixed, this is REALLY bothering me.

It hurts my eyes Turbine!!

I have this problem too, it's noticeable on all my characters, worse on 2handers, even worse with LI glows. For what it's worth I'm playing on an Nvidia chip - 8200M on my laptop. Are the other people suffering this also running Nvidia?

Right now I've uninstalled LoTRO and deleted all config files in Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online. I'm currently downloading the standard client from lotro.com and tomorrow morning I'm going to try as clean re-install as I can manage. I'll post back here to let you know if this makes any improvement.

I promised an update to my previous post... sorry to report a clean re-install has not resolved the issues with weapon bouncing or sound. All my other games continue to run fine without major issue.

Given this is not a known issue according to Turbine, and the fact all my other games have continued working without a hitch I have to conclude there is an unresolvable conflict between the Update 7 LoTRO client and my hardware. I guess it's time to admit defeat and switch over to the games that work.

I have the exact same issue, and it drives me crazy. In addition to the "bouncing" of bows and two-handed weapons, I have noticed a similar effect on my shield, which now seems to float around on my character's arm. Also, during combat, his weapons lag and look like they are floating out of his hand. Turbine needs to fix this bug as soon as possible because it is really distracting. In the meantime, if anyone finds a solution, please let us know.

Staffs have been replaced by pogo-sticks.

I've sent a bug report a few days ago...and the issue hasn't been fixed ever since. T_T

I first noticed this on Bullroarer, and submitted a bug report. They didn't fix it. Reported as bug in live game too. It is annoying, but I just try to look ahead, not at my back when I run.

I have the same issue with all my toons. All my weapons are bouncing. It is more noticable with 2-handers on the back, but even 1-handers and shields bounce out of sync with my toon. As someone else mentioned, the weapons don't move in sync with my hands during combat either. This is not limited to my own toon; when NPCs and mobs with weapons move, their weapons seem to lag behind their hands, also.

like Lainalagos, my graphics controller is NVIDIA. The card is a GeForce8400GS. Maybe it's an NVIDIA problem? I know many people have this issue, but it does not effect everyone.

I still log on to support my raid group, but I have stopped playing with my alts or doing other content because this is incredibly frustrating. I have submitted in-game bug reports, and am now more frustrated that with the last patch it still hasn't been addressed even as a known-issue.

I havent experienced the out of sync weapons I dont think, but I do see the bouncing on the back.. I have an ATI/AMD Radeon 5850.

Originally Posted by paperslug

When I run/walk on my lore master, my staff, which usually sits firmly on my back, now bounces up and down with my strides. It looks very very very wrong, and what's worse is the 'glow' effect on legendary items (hideous enough as it is) doesn't seem to have caught onto this change and stays in position. So it's like the staff is popping in and out of it's glow effect, and sliding off and onto my back!

What is going on here? Is it just me??

Not just you my staff is doing the same-thing, like its held down with a bra with a bad strap... I really wish turbine would fix it!
Looking forward to that update...!