Is pre-buffing neccessary?

[Seryl199]

Recently, in a lot of trials and such, we zone in, tanks fidget for a second or two, wait until I start casting protect, then face pull halfway through the cast, which usually ends with a primal coming my way. Sure, protect isn't even necessary for most trials nowadays, but it's my way of saying, ready, I'm here to keep your ass off the floor. Sending a giant aetheric manifestation at my face because you can't wait for half of my cast bar to finish just seems unnecessarily hasty, rude even.

Then other low level groups are terrified to step out of the starting ring without protect, I typically have to coddle them along and tell them it will be ok. I've never been kicked or harassed for this, in fact I usually get the bulk of the commends.