I’m not sure how best to explain the issue. But it’s a Character Control Movement issue at best and i’m not sure the exact source of the problem. It often goes like this: Character gets Feared and after cannot regain proper directional control of character to move in correct direction and instead move in almost any directional arc other than the intended direction. It also seems that this has also being caused by being on Flight Paths, going through Portals from one place to next as well.
In Theater of Pain which you have to constantly enter and click thru portals to the various platforms my character would have a loss of proper character control after moving to the other platforms. And just about every time my character lands on the platform he cannot move in forward direction as intended. Instead he moves in some other unpredictable direction. And since I Tank on my character it’s also even more problematic for movements. This have caused me to run completely off platform in dungeons to my death, run into walls and off platforms in Torghast being feared, died inside of caged wall all due to lack of proper direction control and died due to mobs while trying to figure out what was happening to character movements. I’m not sure the exact cause. I had this issue when i played on my Laptop, but there i used no addons at all.
I’m playing on a new PC and before I used any addons this issue didn’t seem to occur. I’ve been using a few addons for a while and I never noticed the issue occuring either. However, recently it started happening quite often. At first i’d just notice my character moving sideways like on a tangent instead of clearly moving straight forward. Then i’d fight a some specific mob with a disorientation effect of some kind or use the Flight Path and after trying to move i then realize my character is sometimes moving sideways and so forth.
In Bastion today i run into these Bells in the Forsworn area that would emanate a spell when you step into the area close to it and it would cast a disorientation effect on you. Every time after I had movement issues with character trying to move in correct direction. I’m not really sure what’s going on here. I maybe do suspect an addon, but I can’t tell for sure which or why it be affecting my character movement. Trying to replicate the issue is not something I can do on moment notice to test it. But i’m not sure if this is a common issue or have been solved before either. For me it’s been a huge problem.
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Disable all addons and test to see if the issue is still present. If it’s not, it’ll be up to you to enable / test and determine which one’s causing it.
I’ve disabled one by one various addons that I have added recently and seemingly before I noticed the issue and the issue remained after. I will try and disable everything and see if i can get a disorienting effect maybe to notice if the issue still persists faster. Those Bells in Bastion seems to help cause an effect. But then i have to fight everything around while doing so too. It’s tough to just wait and see as hard to tell when or what exactly will cause it to happen. But will check and see.
If you are going to disable addons, you might a well just do a UI Reset, and see how that goes. (its different than disabling addons)
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Ok here is what I tried as per feedback:
Logged into game and in Bastion. Went to the Forsworn area and close to the lamp light where if your close it cast “Light of Truth” and cause a disorientation effect. At least something I can do to cast an in demand effect. Which does cause the movement issue after the effect is worn off. So…
Disabled ALL Addons on character, logged completely out of game and log back into game. Same issue repeated.
Completely remove ALL Addons from folder and log back into game and test. Same issue repeated.
Followed the suggestion above by Blizzard for “Resetting the WoW User Interface”. That’s the renaming the 3 folders Cache, Interface, WTF. Logged back into game and tested the issue again using the disorientation effect and again, character still keep moving in unpredictable direction.
So neither of the suggestion seems to work.
However, i did also notice while at it that if i click hold both left/right button at same time that this seem to do some kind of reset to directional movement of character and character moves in correct forward with mouse. But, if I didn’t do that with the mouse, my character would keep moving in wrong direction, be it sideways or running into PoV of the UI. Now this is only me trying in some way to replicate the issue using a means in game that has some on demand effect. I have no idea what will happen again in game when get Feared, Take an In-Instance Portal, Mob disorientation effect. So I have no idea what is causing this or why is recently started happening.
I’m left with almost only one thing to do and that is to completely Uninstall WoW and re-Install it and that takes a long while to do. Maybe that fixes it. But i may yet still be at a loss what is causing the issue. As apparently the issue still exist without any addons also.
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I am having the same problem.
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Having the same issue, started after reset this week. Only fix is the mentioned left/right mouse click.
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I just had this same issue. In the Maw. Happened 3 times after being feared. Was able to get my Stygian back all but twice (as a Druid was camping the body). I couldn’t properly move in any direction without holding both right & left click on my mouse.
I would say Bliz either made a bug or an obvious mistake with post-Fear control mechanics, or lack of.
Fear makes you run randomly (which always seems to be toward a precipice coincidentally >.>), but after fear ends I am facing away from the edge and holding both mouse buttons. Now since my character regains control enough to move forward, they should also regain directional control, right? I mean why would they continue to run in whatever direction they were facing when I was clearly facing them in a different direction?
Terrible stupid design flaw, or mistake, either way its wrong.
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Having same issue as well. Total nightmare. Only happening on my desktop which has the same add-ons as my latptop.
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This seems to still be an issue, much more noticeable in the latest patch and with the current set of dungeons with narrow corridors and mobs that pull/disorient the player, can result in falling off ledges or running into bad stuff on the floor if the direction is not reset immediately after the loss of directional control.
I’m bumping this–as I’ve noticed several times tonight, my character simply will not walk straight.
I log-in, port into Stormwind…and I hit “w”, but my character walks at a diagonal…as if I’m holding forward and right strafe at the same time.
I’m not. No keybinds. A few simple addons that I’ve had forever…deleted those–problem is still happening.
It’s happening:
-when getting off flight paths
-when getting off flying and ground mounts
-loading screen to new zone
-completely random times, it happened once after I got done selling grey items to a vendor.
I can’t replicate it because I can’t figure out what oh earth is causing it. 
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Any fixes to this problem? still happening.
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yes im also having the same problem im helping a friend level on her accnt n her toons are doing the same but IVE not had any probs on MY account i even adjusted the camera in OPTIONS n still not helped
Same issue for me, today!
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same issue for me today. Has anyone found a fix for this?
I’m experiencing this loss of character movement control since the last big patch, on some characters more than others, and it’s really getting on my nerves. I’ve completely reset my UI, sacrificed ALL of my addon data (ouch) and it makes not a bit of difference. I’d say this is a Blizzard problem.
I started having the same problem with the last patch.
Did you re-install? and if so, did that fix the issue?
I’m still having the same problem. Nothing is working, so yes it’s a Blizzard issue I think.