having the same issues. tried resettting my entire ui and it seems to have gotten worse. now i have the boxes and i have to redo my entire ui on top of it
I thought this has worked for me as well, but i still get black boxes under spell effects now. So on the world boss every single one of the fire pools tossed off had a black square under it. A visual mess.
yeah i did the raid and there were black boxes everywhere and then ruby life pools and can’t even see the big explosion the fire guy does when he dies. it’s been a mess
Same issue for me in windows 7 with all low except high liquid detail and with (10) view distance and (10) environmental detail
Came here after having a mini-stroke thinking my GPU was messing up, cuz the only thing that I had updated all week has been Wow… but it didn’t happen last night. Just when I logged in today. No NVIDIA updates. Just had to set the quality to fair… Thanks Blizzard. Ya jerks.
Nvm doing this just make the Boxes invisible and all mechanics invisible.
Hope there is a fix before raid
They just released a “known issues” blue tracker but our issue is not on their list 
this is some pretty sad stuff
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Its kinda disrespectful
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Hi - they just put out a hotfix which has resolved the issues for me for the black box under certain mechanics/aoe spells. It also fixed the issue regarding shadow quality so you can have it on low again without the boxes showing up under people.
Looks like the hotfix worked for me also. No more black boxes under ground swirlies.
Court of the Stars still happening black boxes under Storming.
Hotfix DIDN’T fix it
worked here. no boxes under any shadow settings.
im still having this issue, my game is also stuttering a lot now all of a sudden
looks like its still hapenning after todays maintenance. im leveling one of my fresh toons through the tutorial just to see what mail hes got and i saw the black squares under ground effects a couple times already.
This still seems to be happening. I hadn’t noticed it until recently but there’s a lot of solid black ‘visible hitboxes’ and on-the-ground surface textures and such.
This might be related (due to it starting at the same time as the other graphical bug), but the talking head is also no longer showing up. I tried doing the new starting zone and the part where the talking heads show up (when you’re strapped to the flying robot thing) didn’t have the talking heads at all, like no audio and no visuals whatsoever.