[Draggor]

Only fighters can get weapon specialization but any character can get the others, fighters just get them sooner. Use magic device won't give you a familiar, you'll have to pick up a level of wizard or sorcerer for that. There's good examples of all the different weapons, I'd recommend longswords, good critical hit range and lots of different ones that do elemental damage(to break things open).
The only difference between rangers and fighters in combat is that fighters wind up more skilled by the amount of feats they have and are better armoured. As your first few feats I'd recommend weapon focus, power attack, cleave, knockdown, toughness.