I have Wings of Liberty, but I am thinking of getting HoTS. My code for Wings of Liberty has been used on my locked account. So, my question is do I need another copy of Wings of Liberty to play HoTS, or would my copy be sufficient enough to play HoTS without Wings of Liberty being linked to my account?
Starcraft – Do I need a Wings of Liberty code to play Heart of the Swarm
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Yes. Any achievement, any achievement, that has a difficulty requirement as part of the achievement can also be completed on a higher difficulty. This means that (if you're good enough) you can get all of the Wings of Liberty Mission achievements on a single playthrough.
E.g., for the Red Lobster achievement, you can taunt the Brutalisk into the lava on Normal, Hard, or Brutal -- you don't "have" to be on normal (despite the listing to the contrary)
If I'm understanding your question properly, in order to have two Heart of the Swarm licenses you need two Wings of Liberty licenses.
Since Heart of the Swarm is not a stand alone expansion, you need to have all the prerequisite games in order to play it (each copy).
You can see for example, on this Cataclysm box art for World of Warcraft, that it requires "Wrath of the Lich King to play". Wotlk says it requires TBC, and TBC requires the base game. It is expansions all the way down. This trend stands true for all Blizzard games to date, as they don't release stand alone expansions.
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If your account is locked then you will need to do one of two things:
Once you activate a key on a Blizzard account it is tied to that account. Licenses can't be transferred in the way you are describing above.
To answer the question in the comments (since it wasn't clear above), you can install from the DVD, however you will not be able to log into the game because it is still tied to your base Wings of Liberty account.
While you can purchase a HoTS key and install with it, you won't be able to play the game because when you log into the game with your new account with only the HoTS key it will see that you do not have a WOL key with the account.