Can we talk about Battlegrounds Duos etiquette?
I’ve had some great teammates who try to keep things equal with both of us taking care to build our board with strong minions that will survive the early game, so that we can even get to the late game.
And then I’ve had some super-greedy ones…
Who buy two Patient Scouts in their first few turns and tier up every time they have enough gold, so then they have nothing on their board except two 1/1 Patient Scouts by Turn 5!
And who spend 10 gold tiering up to Tier 5 right after taking a 15-health loss, instead of building their board to try to survive the next turn!
And then we go out in 4th place…
Being over 6000 MMR in Duos, I usually get really good teammates who understand the game.
But why do some people play so greedily, especially if you’re on a team? If you’re playing singles and you want to gamble everything, that’s your business. But if you’re on a team, shouldn’t you be a team player and try to keep your team alive to make it to the later rounds?
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you must live in a hole to think any team based game will have players who understand “etiquette” 
Ha ha!!! Okay, fair! 
Maybe I just need to recognize when to concede and take the loss and move on. In the time I waste on a bad game, I could probably requeue and play a game with a better partner and win back the points I lost conceding. 
The “etiquette” is to avoid taking seriously any team game if you don’t know personally the co players or at least know them online. It’s all fun and games when the games are easy but sooner or later you will be trolled by randoms.
This is not only Hearthstone advice but applicable to ALL games with randoms in teams.
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Etiquette in a blizzard game is clicking the “random quickplay” button knowing fully well you’ll probably get matched with 10 year olds who can’t even tie their shoes, much less try to figure out what you’re trying to communicate to them.
I’d say that’s the true in any game but even a 10 year old in Overwatch understands “Huh, someone’s keeps pinging the snipers exact location, that must mean the sniper is dangerous!”
In this game the best thing I’ve been able to communicate is 3 Xs then a checkmark on a Rakinishu’s tavern, somehow he figured out that means “Try to save your tavern lights until you’re at least tier 3”
Felt nice seeing that some people can understand what you trying to tell em but I swear we need left and right arrows as one of our pings, I keep seeing very weird deathrattle placements every game
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It’s not always a bad strategy to aggressively level up or be greedy, it depends on what you can get away with, although keep in mind that sometimes players do not have a better choice.
Funneling resources into one board is also a viable strategy, you just have to make sure that you share some instant kills later on the weak side
If you teammate got strong combo pieces stop what you doing and play support role
A good example is demon consume or high blood gems where they may get a lot more value out of your gold than you
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It might not always be greedy. It might be they assume you’re taking the role of building the big early board to minimize losses while they build the game winning board. That’s definitely a strategy that’s common enough. I usually indicate that by checking my partners tier up button, if I think I’ve got the makings of an early strong board.
E…g. one player go early undead or dragons because they can win almost 1v2 in the early turn, while the other player tiers up to get the murlocs/quilboar/elemental build that can actually finish the game.
But yeah, there’s also definitely some people just trying to emulate 1:100 plays they saw on twitch instead of being pragmatic.
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Easy way to deal with people that afk the first couple rounds or simply pretend they have no teammate and tank your chances to win or tie: Sell all your stuff and go watch some tv. Sure, you might lose some MMR, but you were going to anyways, and now you also wasted 20 minuets by watching your teammate do nothing.
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Don’t play duos until they fix the ability to ping your hero power with the comms system
Don’t play duos until you can add/report your own teammate
Don’t play duos until they implement actual comms
Don’t play duos until they implement unranked BGs
Don’t play duos until duos matchmaking actually puts you with people relatively close to your MMR, because I can assure you, the paste eaters I get in 7k+ are NOT 7k solo MMR