@DivineLucubration, @Beagle:

What follows came about while studying both the Scout and Rocketeer classes -- it hit me that the perk tree flow seemed awkward. With the original framework for the Scout class in mind, I started making notes for suggestions and tweaks -- ultimately to pass along for consideration with any future iterations of the class. It turned into a small project, and the results are below....


Scout Perks
Squaddie:
Awareness -- The Scout pays close attention to their surroundings, increasing their chance at detecting the presense of nearby enemies. 5 tile radius

***Makes Awareness baseline for all Scouts, but w/ a reduced radius. The idea is that all Scouts are usually trained to spot things before others, and even a bad scout masters this basic of skills, or they wouldn't be a scout. Lightning Reflexes remains a perk (although slightly altered), it just gets moved down the tree and is no longer baseline.

Corporal:
Quick Strike - Slash your sword/fire your pistol at the target. This attack does not cost an action. 4 turn cooldown.
Camouflage - When the squad is revealed, the Scout remains concealed. Once per mission, immediately enter concealment.

***Lightning Hands and Conceal are renamed to Quick Strike and Camouflage respectively, this is to reduce confusion w/ the perks of the same names already in use by Sharpshooters and Rangers. Both of these perks move up from Sergeant to Corporal rank and have been swapped from left/right tree positions to coincide with future flow of the perks down the progression trees.

Sergeant:
Holo Targeting - Any directed primary weapon shot, hit or miss, will mark the target, increasing your squad's aim by +15 against this target.
Executioner - Confers +10 aim and +10 critical chance against targets at or below 50% health.

***Perks moved down from Corporal to Sergeant as Executioner seemed too powerful for a Corporal to have mastered. Otherwise, no changes are suggested, as these perks fit very nicely w/ the class overall

Lieutenant:
Flush - Fire a shot that encourages enemies to move. +30 aim. -50% base weapon damage. Uses 2 ammo.
Heightened Reflexes - The hit chance of reaction fire against this unit is reduced by 90 percent for the first shot, and by 50 percent for any additional shots. Also grants +2 mobility base to the Scout.

***Flush swapped to left tree position, otherwise no change. Lightning Reflexes is renamed to Heightened Reflexes while giving the same primary defense, but a reduced defense on secondary shots...as an offset, the Scout then gains +2 mobility baseline. The idea is that good Scouts move faster through/over terrain, and the extra mobility should synergize w/ the blue move sword attacks, but not be too overpowered (and still situational). This perk then replaces Battle Scanner which gets revamped and moved to Captain level (see below).

Captain:
Smoke and Mirrors - Allows one additional use of all equipped support grenades during each mission. It also increases charges from Smoke Grenades by 1 and the radius by 2.
Danger Sense/Heightened Senses - Allows the Scout to sense enemies beyond their field of view, and increases their base field of vision for 2 turns. Does not break concealment. Detects enemies like the Battle Scanner perk, and adds 4 additional tiles to the Awareness perk. Has a 8 Turn Coolown.

***Smoke and Mirrors moves up from Major rank and gets swapped to the left tree position, and gets a slight radius increase. Danger Sense/Heightened Senses replaces Battle Scanner w/ a skill a bit more flavorable for a Scout, yet functions somewhat similar (with an added tweak of boosting awareness for 2 turns -- to a max of 10 tiles w/ 5 (base) +1 (GTS) +4 (DS)).

Major:
Hit and Run - Your first attack of each turn against an uncovered or flanked target does not cost an action.
Assassinate - Your attacks will not break concealment if they kill the target.

***Hit and Run and Assassinate are moved down from Captain tier, they just seemed too potent for that level. Also swapped them left/right to match tree flow. Otherwise, no changes are suggested.

Colonel:
Grim Reaper - Your kills with a sword or pistol refund your action points for the turn.
Ghost - Greatly reduces the Scout's detection radius by enemies while concealed. -50% detection radius.

***Reaper renamed to Grim Reaper to clear confusion w/ normal perk already used by Rangers. Perks are also swapped for flow down the tree.


The GTS Perks look good, no suggested changes.