It's working fine for me. There are two things that may seem like its not working.
Either the talent isn't unlocked with talent tokens or you're collecting reagents like you normally are.
If you're doing the latter, you need to hit the pet icon above the potions icon near your health/mana/energy is displayed. Next, to the option to 'Play as Pet', press the Balance Scout (w/e the Scout talent you have equippedon ) to collect reagents nearby.
The pet ability (Insert School) Scout has a two minute cooldown and appears automatically when a reagent is nearby and when the pet option is minimized.
I thought I was insane the first time I saw the scout didnt give me azoth, but every single time i use it i just get reagents with no azoth
Further to my last post confirming it is definitely giving Azoth. You are using the Balance Scout button to collect reagents not manually as per usual using the X button?