Bestial Rage/Feral Force-Attack Damage unclear

Hello,

The term Attack Damage is unclear when the description says "Attacks are skills that directly use your equipped weapon to damage enemies".

What does directly use your weapon to damage enemies mean?

One would guess that melee weapons are used directly to damage an enemy. However it is not clear for a ranged weapon. The description needs to explicitly state whether ranged weapons also is encompassed by this node because ranged weapons shoot projectiles. It is the projectiles that make contact with the enemy so is the ranged weapon itself or the projectiles that directly damage enemies??

A second critical point is this: if ranged weapons are also buffed by this Bestial Rage and Feral Force then, do all their elemental damage types also receive the +25% damage? If yes, then the other nodes of Cold Nature, Electrifying Nature, and Fire Nature would be irrelevant since a single node of Bestial Rage or Feral Force could be taken for one to acquire the same total value of those three elemental nodes (Electrifying, Cod and Fire Nature).

As a ranged player, I do not know if taking Bestial Rage or Feral Force would boost my ranged weapon's damage or not.

Please advise.

Thank you in advance.