Overlapping circle AOE's in dungeons?

[Kaethra]

In all the raid guide videos I watch, they say to avoid overlapping AOE's.

I can see not letting your circle touch another player, but is there any harm in letting the circles themselves overlap (but avoiding the players in them)?

Seems to me, partial overlaps would be beneficial in that they give everyone more room, and if they leave puddles, the space taken by them is reduced due to the overlap.

You are absolutely correct with this observation.... about 99% of the time.

What that means is normally you can stack AOEs and as long as there's no players in them, you're golden. Then there's going to be that 1% of the time where one boss will have AOEs that do stupid stuff when they combine. But I would say keep doing what you are doing.