Hey hey!

Although Meeo already covered most of your questions, as a new boxer who also plays wow, let me just add my 2 cents:


Can you dual box in a similar way in EvE as you can in WoW using Octopus to generate key presses between master/slave toons?

As Meeo already stated, no. However, I use innerspace with mouse broadcasting for Eve, and it works fabulously. Basically you broadcast a target on your main, and it pops up in the fleet window - then you have a repeater region set up for that window area, so that when you click there and target, all your guys do it together. Also when your guys are fleeted up (grouped) the leader can order the fleet to warp to specific locations or follow them in a warp. In a sense controlling their movement from one toon.

Are there /follow/assist macros I can use?
EvE seems to be all about the mouse clicking, is there a way to key bind abilities and attributes to limit the amount of clicking required?

This is a very big difference between Wow and Eve - no macros. AT ALL. Also a complete lack of addons, and low customization in the UI appearance (the options for displaying things in your overview and such though are ridiculously varied however)

Boxing in Eve is a bit more difficult than boxing wow. HOWEVER - Eve is a much slower game than Wow. So far in my limited experience, unless you get one shot in your frigate or industrial coming off a gate by a stealth bomber or something, pvp isn't over in 5 seconds like in a lot of MMOs - pvp is very tactical and depends a lot on thought beforehand and fittings, and not so much on who has the fastest twitch.

I still use and enjoy keyclone for its simplicity and lack of problems for Wow, but I would highly recommend innerspace for Eve, as it offers pretty much everything you need for boxing the game effectively.