My compy died while I was responding last night.
Unfortunately, and at the risk of sounding like I just come here to complain, my DM has a poor grasp on the wealth by level rules, such that I can choose between a healing belt or a wand of lesser vigor(at level 3). Further, I'm the only person who wants to play an artificer, and was talked out of that so the party would have more melee characters. Those others I'm totally game for, they're just a bit far off.
I'm slowly going through everything mentioned in this thread to see which ones I like, thanks for everything to everyone, just haven't had the time to say, "oh, hey, yeah, that one is the one for me."