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:
| 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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