Pathfinding

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Pathfinding
	Basic Pathfinding: reduces the movement penalty for rough terrain by 25%.
	Advanced Pathfinding: reduces the movement penalty for rough terrain by 50%.
	Expert Pathfinding: reduces the movement penalty for rough terrain by 75%.

Pathfinding is a secondary skill, that reduces the movement penalty for rough terrains. A hero with expert pathfinding secondary skills treats all terrains as grass, which means that the hero suffers no penalty for crossing rough, sand, snow, swamp, or wasteland  terrain types. Penalty reductions from the skill level are tabulated below. Please note that Pathfinding doesn't give any additional movement points, just allows heroes to save them.

Terrain penalties with different levels of Pathfinding:

Terrain	None	Basic	Advanced	Expert
Dirt Grass Lava Subterranean Highlands	100%	100%	100%	100%
Rough Wasteland	125%	100%	100%	100%
Sand Snow	150%	125%	100%	100%
Swamp	175%	150%	125%	100%

Heroes with Pathfinding (basic) as a starting skill:

•   Clancy the Ranger
•   Gretchin the Barbarian
•   Korbac the Beastmaster
•   Andal the Navigator 
•   Corkes the Captain 
•   Leena 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	2 (lowest)
Rampart	Ranger	7
Rampart	Druid	5
Tower	Alchemist	4
Tower	Wizard	2 (lowest)
Inferno	Demoniac	4
Inferno	Heretic	4
Necropolis	Death Knight	4
Necropolis	Necromancer	6
Dungeon	Overlord	5
Dungeon	Warlock	2 (lowest)
Stronghold	Barbarian	8 (highest)
Stronghold	Battle Mage	4
Fortress	Beastmaster	8 (highest)
Fortress	Witch	2 (lowest)
Conflux	Planeswalker	6
Conflux	Elementalist	2 (lowest)
Cove	Captain	8 (highest)
Cove	Navigator	6
Factory	Mercenary	{{{21}}}
Factory	Artificer	{{{22}}}

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User commentary

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The usefulness of the Pathfinding skill depends on the terrain of the map. If you walk primarily on your home soil, Logistics is sufficient. However, if a map has vast territories very hard to pass (e.g. swamp), Pathfinding works decently, potentially even better than Logistics. Playing against Tower or Fortress is a reason to use Logistics and Pathfinding. Pathfinding can always be recommended as a secondary skill for scout type secondary heroes, but it may also be valuable for the main hero(es). It should be noted that some factions' native terrains slow the enemy down very much, which gives the player a big advantage and therefore may affect the necessity of pathfinding. Things that ruin Pathfinding An army on native terrain Nomad's on sand terrain Dimension Door Fly Angel Wings Wayfarer's Boots Lodestar makes all terrains native to Cove armies

See also:

• Secondary skills