9) How do you reduce its stats? Or are you confusing it with Explorer?
There's a concern that Navigation won't be taken too often, as the old Speedy, besides its own functionality, also consisted of two useful skills. And how valuable a pure Speedy is – is unknown.
However, whether it's worth taking Navigation just because of Speedy is something I would think about.
Tyrxor. Let him come with goblins and 6-7 + 6-7 wolves. That should be enough for him. But Samurai believes that a Barbarian without Tyrxor will be like in SOD, and you think that it's perfectly fine. Everyone has their own opinion. But it seems that everyone understands that he has a LOT of wolves now.
Regarding scrolls. It's better to remove them completely than to come up with something new that might not work.