The Scouting perk tree allows you to focus on enhancing your experience of the campaign map. You can choose to specialise in increased movement speed during the day or night, significantly lower food consumption and increase movement speed in forests, deserts, hills, and marshes. All other perks are accessible without having to choose between two mutually exclusive perks. These include providing you with more tracking information, increased enemy spotting range, and general movement speed. In addition you can slightly increase your hit points from one of the later perks, though this is fairly negligible unless you're attempting to create the toughest possible build.
Note: Each of the perks listed under a specific level are mutually exclusive. If you invest in one at a particular level, you will never be able to invest in the other at that same level.
Scouting Perks:
Skill Level 25:
- Pathfinder: +1% party movement speed during the day
- Night Vision: +2% party movement speed during the night
Skill Level 50:
- Navigator: +1% party movement speed during day and night
Skill Level 75:
- Investigator: Tracking provides more information
Skill Level 100:
- Farsighted: Increased chance to spot parties
Skill Level 125:
- Eye for Ambush: Spot hideouts further away
Skill Level 150:
- Forest Lore: -50% food consumption and +5% movement speed in forests
- Desert Lore: -50% food consumption and +5% movement speed in deserts
Skill Level 175:
- Hills Lore: -50% food consumption and +5% movement speed on hills
- Marshes Lore: -50% food consumption and +5% movement speed in marshes
Skill Level 200:
- Forced March: Bonus speed with high party morale
Skill Level 225:
- Grassland Navigator: +5% movement speed in grasslands
Skill Level 250:
- Healthy Scout: +8 Hit Points
Skill Level 275:
Lay of the Land: +3% movement speed on campaign map
Tip: You can only level the Scouting skill when no other companion is assigned the role of Scout. You can assign yourself as a Scout in the clan menu on the campaign map. The easiest way to level the skill is simply by navigating the campaign map, but there are ways in which you can increase the rate of learning by discovering new settlements, bandit hideouts, tracking, and navigating difficult terrain such as mountains, hills, deserts, snowscapes, and marshlands.
