Brutal Strike and warrior skills

[stownin]

1)
I just started on the warrior and have some problems with solo-ing mobs. (Those meant to be soloed). I notice that some of the Instant attacks like Brutal Strike seems to take up a single attack. i.e. Instead of instant damage, it simply increases the damage of the next attack, if placed right before a normal attack is timed to land. Therefore to achieve max dps i have to wait for a normal attack to land, before i quickly press the brutal strike button for an additional attack.

Is it supposed to work like that and how do you guys max out your dps in turns of skill.

2)

The warrior has a shooting skill which increases aggro of a mob. However the range is a whooping 50+ which is much greater than the orginial 25 range of the bow. So, I just shoot away and I can land like 10 shots before the mob even touch me. Imba IMHO.

[Lightning]

I've not given much thought to utterly maximimising my DPS, so I can't comment on #1 other than to say I can solo fine...

#2, however, yes I am convinced this is a bug and have logged it as such. My girlfriend is playing a ranger and I can outrange her using Enraging Shot which just seems wrong unless Warriors are meant to be the masters of pulling

If I am willing to expend the bolts to do so, I can take an even con / yellow con 2 dot mob down to half health before it reaches melee range.

[Rulan]

If you mean that you would get more DPS by waiting for a normal attack then hit a special, which then resets the combat timer and will let you do a normal attack, I have kind of noticed this before but I couldn't really tell if I was doing more DPS.

For example if I wait for a normal attack then hit BS quickly after it seems my cooldown between when I auto attack again is longer, than if I were to spam BS.