Quote Originally Posted by Evaar View Post
So for the people who are saying Swords makes a better archer than Valor - in what respect are we saying that? For a damage focus? It seems to me it would depend how you want to play. If your goal is "archer first, bard second" then I think I get the argument. But if the goal is "bard first, archer instead of cantrip spam" then I would lean Valor. And at high levels you get to throw out an archery attack after casting a Bard spell, which isn't nothing if you're using Sharpshooter.
It's a better archer as in actually has ways to improve it's own archery beyond Extra Attack, it seems liek a pretty clear distinction being an archer isn't about casting Bard spells, it's about shooting things with arrows and Swords is better at that.