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What was your assigned healing role? Were you assigned to keeping the tank up, or were you raid healing? Stick to your assignments, spend your mana wisely (read: don't use Flash Heal unless you procced SoL) and you should be fine.
I know it's tempting to try and heal every single person in the raid but you have to trust your fellow healers to do their jobs otherwise you'll go OOM trying to raid heal as well as keep the tank up.
Renew isn't your go-to raid healing spell like it used to be. Overall it seems a lot less effective. I'm not an expert on playing Holy at 85, but I would probably only use it on the tank if I were in Chakra: Serenity and just refresh it's duration with Heal, otherwise it just tends to be a mana-hog and it eats up your precious GCDs. Casting it once and refreshing it with your direct heals gives you an HPS boost of at least 1000 and you don't have to worry about spending your GCDs to refresh it, it just kinda does it's thing in the background.
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I've been using Healbot since BC raid healing. While I haven't done much endgame healing yet in Cata, I'll try to remember my healbot setting from LK. I've changed things lately, but I don't remember them off the top of my head, so I will see what I can remember from back in the day.
Left click - renew
Right click - Flash heal
Middle click - Dispel magic
Ctrl left click - Circle of Healing
Ctrl right click - Greater Heal
Ctrl middle click - Cure disease (or whatever it's called)
I also had some stuff bound to alt and shift, but I don't remember what they are.
I know that since Cata came out I've moved Flash Heal to Alt-right-click and replaced right-click with Heal.
Just assign things logically and use them for a while and they become second nature.
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Flash heal can still be used if someone won't survive with the split heal from a PoH/CoH, so don't take it our of your repertoire just yet (I took Greater Heal out, just because the difference never seemed like that much for the difference in cast time).
Largely, Halfus is a lot of strain on you as a raid healer. If you've got the Time Warden, releasing him makes it so that raid members are largely responsible for dodging the raid damage, while the Whelps put more pressure on you to heal everyone up before the next wave of breaths.
I agree with Giry in terms of how to gem; though I prefer to use Int-Haste gems in red as well as yellow, and Int-Spirit gems for blue. Also, Sea Star is fine but Witching Hourglass adds nothing to your mana (which largely determines how much you'll be able to raid heal). Try some (insert shudders) Heroic Stonecore for the Tear of Blood from the last boss.
Just keep trying... It's a hard time for us as healers, and it'll get better as your gear gets better too.
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