I made a barbarian for the first time and so far I'm lovin' the class. At the moment I'm lv 4, with enough xp to level up to 5.

I started putting points into UMD thinking that I could get it high enough to use cure light/mod wands but I quickly realized that with my 0.5 ranks per level, combined with my sexy dwarven charisma of 6, I was never going to self heal effectively.

My original plan for this character was to take 2 levels of rogue so that I could (attempt to) max my UMD, get Evasion, and be a semi-decent trap monkey when soloing. But, I realized that this would take more skill points than I was willing to invest in my INT score, so I scrapped this plan.

So my question to you fellow barbarians is: would it be acceptable to take one level of ranger for the wand usage ability? I realize this is my character and I can screw it up however I see fit, but I would prefer not to gimp myself more than necessary. As much as I would love to remain pure barb, I honestly don't see this character reaching level 20 and so I'm not too worried about end game content/capstone. I do plan on taking the Frenzied Berserker prestige class though. Would it be wise to hold off until level 7 to take the one ranger level?