If you make it clear to people you travel with and others in your cabal that you'd like help with wands, you'll run into someone who will walk you through the sleek system and show you a bunch of locations. I also show people all the limited wands and potions and other devices I know, but some people are more stingy about that, since it can make it harder to find when you want to use it
I mostly prefer to play something that levels slowly and fights a lot along the way. But sometimes I just want to try a legacy combo, or whatever, and will make a throwaway character that's super reckless and never preps or anything. Both ways of playing can be fun, to me, at different times.