Scouting
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Basic Scouting: allows your hero to see 1 square further into the shroud. | |
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Advanced Scouting: allows your hero to see 2 square further into the shroud. | |
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Expert Scouting: allows your hero to see 3 square further into the shroud. | |
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:
Importance
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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.)
Chance to get
| Town | Class | Chance to learn |
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 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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