Ability: Intelligence.
Requires Training: No.
Classes: Ranger, Rogue
Roleplay: Sometimes. This skill affects the game engine.
In Haze: Search is used for most looting, whether in flotsam or dungeons, the loot is primarily instanced, and each person will get a chance to roll to find something. This roll is done verse you Search Check + the number of successes you've had in the last 12 hours in that type of loot.
So if you loot flotsam and hit every beach, and find something 12 times, you'll have a weighty modifier against you the next time you go to loot all the beaches in the same 12 hour span, so you can't just loot infinitely.
This is in addition to the regular game mechanics involving Search.