Wise to splash Ranger for wand usage?

[Hokonoso]

FYI ... Intimidate is a still a good skill for barbarians to pick up... Barbarian Intimidation is an enhancement that is an AOE debuff with NO SAVE: -2 to hit, -2 to saves on all mobs... That's pretty sweet actually.

yes it is useful, but not mandatory, none of the skills a barb can take are mandatory (ie help their main focus in life which is max dps) so any skill you take which has it's use is simply fluff and for your playstyle, not everyone wants to mash intimidate every 6 seconds or ever for that matter, and not everyone wants to umd raise the dead or heal themselves. personally as a 20 barb i had max imtim and umd as there were times id use both etc... but that is my personal playstyle, ill still argue they are not necessary however.

[Mirra_of_the_Long_D]

The reason I made this post in the first place was that I was worried about the solo survivability of the barbarian class since (aside from pots) it has no self healing ability. I'm up to lv 8 now and still pure barb. I put off re-rolling or multiclassing because I've wanted to see how well the barbarian handles on its own, and honestly, I'm glad I did. So far I've been able to solo play without any healing issues or hirelings.

Thanks for all the imput from everyone. It will be useful if I do ever decide to make a Barb/Rogue.