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1. How much should I expect to spend on a single PC setup? I want high performance, no lag, and I'm willing to spend what it takes. I will be building the PC myself from newegg or whatever, but my current PC is outdated and this is another reason for a new system. Do i need to go RAM intensive I assume, is 4 Gigs of high quality ddr etc. acceptable? What about harddrive? Do i need a super fast RPM drive for optimal performance?
Are you planning on a single machine set up, or multiple machines? What OS do you plan on using (this has a huge impact on your RAM requirement). Also, a 7200 rpm drive is typically just fine harddrive-wise. I see a lot of people getting the 10k raptors on here, but I don't believe its all that necessary. Plus, with junctions you can do fine with a single drive as well.

2. Time concerns me. I just leveld my first character to 70 (UD shadowpriest). Now I will have to do it all over again but x5? I realize i can quest them all at the same time, and I know there is info posted here, but just in general: Will it be faster or slower than solo questing my priest up? Should i be running instances with this setup for maximal XP?
Typically at best you may break even, but that's probably pretty rare. If you decide to skip professions and collection quests, you can help your time frame, but it is most likely going to be more time then leveling a single character to 70. Probably not too much more though. Running instances will be good along the way imo to help you refine your setup, and also helps you catch up on some of the xp you lose from being grouped the whole time, as well as if you skip certain quests that can be time consuming.

3. The BIGGEST concern I have of all is this: Lets say I buy a $3,000 computer, 5 accounts, 5 copies of BC, and spend 1-2 months leveling up these 5 characters. Then Blizzard modifies their EULA to say duo-boxing, or anything above 2 boxing is now a bannable offense. My dreams of glory and godliness are now flushed. The main reason I see this happening are constant player complaints and /reports. Players dont KNOW that this is currently a non-bannable offense, so I would think you would get a high level of reports both from people you kill and from just people you encounter in-game. Maybe they think you are hacking, or some chinese leveling factory.
World of Warcraft has been in release for something like what, 4 years now? If they were going to modify the TOS to exclude multiboxing they would have done it by now. There is also an official post from a CM, but I don't have the link to it while I'm here at work. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it, just make sure all you're accounts are under the same name.
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