Scouting is pretty good TBH. As with all skills, it has some duds that could be replaced with better perks, or perks could be increased from 2% to something a it more substantial but scouting is still better then most skills. The benefit of keen sight and uncanny insight for the party leader are very good and worth taking it on your MC. You can do reticules?? ... crazy things like take a full faction hostage forever or execute everyone but keep just the leader your prisoner forever and use thier land as a forced recruitment troop farm forever.
I think Bow is pretty good perk wise, the other ranged are okay, but the melee needs some more useful stuff and not nonsense like +2% damage when you kill everything in 1-2 hits anyways. Also, you can have zero skills in melee and they work fine too, not sure if TW will ever overhaul that so you need skill to actually swing weapons effectively or not.
