Dual boxing on a budget

The easiest and cheapest way to multibox is to open two copies of World of Warcraft on your PC.  To do this you need to have two accounts.  You have a few decision you have to make concerning how you set up your second account.

If you want to multibox to give you easy convenient access to old raids that you intend to solo for fun and profit, all you will need is a trial account that has been leveled up to at least level 10.  The character on the trial account will have to be added to the party by the character on the main account and the party will have to be converted to raid.  This will conveniently give the main account access to solo an old raid.

If you want to be able to participate in trade and form/join guilds you will need to have access to a full account.  

Players on Starter Edition game licenses have the following restrictions:

• A level cap of 20
• A maximum of 10 gold
• Trade skills are capped at 100 ranks
• Unable to trade via the Auction House, mailbox, or player-to-player
• In-game access to public chat channels unavailable; players are limited to communicating using only say, party, or whisper
• Characters will be unable to create or join guilds
• Characters are not able to send whispers to other characters unless they have been added to the characters' friends' lists or have received a whisper from a character first
• Characters will not be able to invite other players into a party
• Characters will be unable to disable experience gains
• Voice chat is disabled on Starter Edition accounts
• Realms experiencing login queues will prioritize players who have full, paid accounts
• Starter Edition accounts are not eligible for character transfers
• Real ID features are disabled on all Starter Edition Accounts

http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/world-of-warcraft-starter-edition-account-faq

These restrictions are there to limit the unscrupulous gold sellers from taking advantage of the starter edition accounts.

How do you make use of this second albeit limited account?  The main purpose I can see for this sort of account is where you log into both accounts, on your main you invite your secondary account to a group.  Then you convert your group to raid and head on into the instance.  The advantage is you can do this anytime you want without having to ask anyone else to help you out.  


A second account with all the “flair”

What if you want to do more with your second account?  Maybe you want to boost a few characters through some content, or maybe you want a bigger challenge of playing two characters at once and seeing how far you can get through a dungeon.  Or you want to use two accounts to streamline your manipulation of the auction house.  

It seems I periodically see offers either on the loading screen for World of Warcraft, on one of the community sites or mentioned on twitter discussing a cheap ways to get friends into World of Warcraft.  This can be taking advantage of a christmas sale for the Battle Chest or using refer a friend to get main account a cool new mount.  

Regardless of how you want to use your account and what type of account you have for your second account, you will need some addons and potentially some other software to make the best use of your second account.  

 This image was tweeted by Jim Younkin of Power Word: Gold