Scouting

Secondary skills
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Armorer
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Diplomacy
Eagle Eye
Earth Magic
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Fire Magic
First Aid
Intelligence
Interference
Leadership
Learning
Logistics
Luck
Mysticism
Navigation
Necromancy
Offense
Pathfinding
Resistance
Scholar
Scouting
Sorcery
Tactics
Water Magic
Wisdom

Scouting
	Basic Scouting: allows your hero to see 1 square further into the shroud.
	Advanced Scouting: allows your hero to see 2 square further into the shroud. (3 squares in Horn of the Abyss)
	Expert Scouting: allows your hero to see 3 square further into the shroud. (5 squares in Horn of the Abyss)

Scouting is a secondary skill that increases hero's scouting radius by one at basic level, by two at advanced level and by three at expert level. Related artifacts are Speculum and Spyglass, which both increased the scouting radius by +1.

Heroes with Scouting as a starting skill:

•   Aeris the Druid – Basic Scouting
•   Broghild the Beastmaster – Basic Scouting
•   Calh the Demoniac – Basic Scouting
•   Deemer the Warlock – Advanced (Basic in HotA ) Scouting
•   Fiona the Demoniac – Advanced Scouting
•   Lorelei the Overlord – Basic Scouting
•   Piquedram the Alchemist – Basic Scouting
•   Shiva the Barbarian – Basic Scouting
•   Beatrice the Knight – Basic Scouting 
•   Miriam the Captain – Basic Scouting 

Horn of the Abyss

In   Horn of the Abyss the skill effect was increased from +2 and +3 scouting radius for advanced and expert levels to +3 and +5 respectively.

Scouting specialty was introduced: it increases the scouting range by 1 every 6 levels.

Heroes with Scouting specialty:

•   Beatrice the Knight 
•   Miriam the Captain 

Chance to get

Out of total 112 for Shadow of Death, and of (112 + Interference chance) for Horn of the Abyss .
Banned skills change the probability.

Town	Class	Chance to learn
Castle	Knight	4
Castle	Cleric	3
Rampart	Ranger	7
Rampart	Druid	2 (lowest)
Tower	Alchemist	4
Tower	Wizard	2 (lowest)
Inferno	Demoniac	5
Inferno	Heretic	3
Necropolis	Death Knight	4
Necropolis	Necromancer	2 (lowest)
Dungeon	Overlord	5
Dungeon	Warlock	2 (lowest)
Stronghold	Barbarian	8 (highest)
Stronghold	Battle Mage	4
Fortress	Beastmaster	7
Fortress	Witch	2 (lowest)
Conflux	Planeswalker	6
Conflux	Elementalist	2 (lowest)
Cove	Captain	4
Cove	Navigator	2 (lowest)
Factory	Mercenary	{{{21}}}
Factory	Artificer	{{{22}}}

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In a multiplayer mode, Scouting is decent so as to discover the map faster. However, if playing against AI, there is a way to examine the uncovered lands, saving a slot for a more mighty secondary skill: save the progress and use a cheat which unveils the whole map, then return to your normal game, having remembered the most important things (i.e. location of various map objects, artifacts, enemy heroes, their force and proximity to your towns, etc.) Anyway, as the game is played, the map is often getting fully unveiled, or at least everything important for the mission is disclosed, sooner or later.

Things that ruin Scouting

• Skyship

See also:

• Scouting radius
• Secondary skills