Title is the question.
Lore Bard is the go-to for caster bards because of Magical Secrets. They also get cutting words.
Swords Bard can pump out much more damage because of flourishes, making them powerful melee fighters and even stronger archers using dual hand xbows.
Valor Bards however.... get nothing but a different form of Inspiration that you have to use on your party members and can't use on yourself.
I mean, I get it -- Bards are "supposed" to be the party buffer fantasy, but most of the other bard subclasses - even those not in BG3 - get some way to use their Inspiration for themselves, such as the Swords using it for their Flourishes.
Valor "used" to be the Bard to go for to get medium armor proficiency and shield proficiency.... but Larian's homebrew for Humans and Half-Elves giving them Shield Prof as a racial and Gith getting Medium Armor as a proficiency really makes Valor very lackluster, more so than it already usually is.
So is there a point to Valor that I'm missing -- or is it just a option you have to choose if you want to play a Bard that basically doesn't have much of a subclass and has to burn their action economy using Inspiration on their party members?
