Originally Posted by Malleus
Call me old-fashioned if you like, but I don't think "You can slack off all you like in BT so long as nobody else does" is quite the message we should be sending to healadins looking for advice.
That said, depending on how you stack your healers FoL remains very usable in early BT and all of Hyjal. But if you're using it all the time and leaving the work to others, you should not be surprised if you lose your raid slot because frankly, you're a waste of space.
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Alternatively we can call you presumptuous, since that's not what he said at all. You are really putting words in his mouth.
It's not that people adopt a strong FoL pattern for BT because it's all that's necessary or that it's "usable" - it's because it's genuinely a good technique for almost all static-tank fights in BT as most of the damage is not commonly spiky at all. You can pretty much stack healing and cast a majority FoLs in an effort to maintain a very steady stream of healing that when combined with resto hots, pretty much locks your tank healing down completely while leaving the occasional spike to your resto druids.
I think it goes without saying that the obvious cases that need requires holy light should still be met with holy lights: Fel Rage Targets, Enraged Illidan, looping back during blazes, OTs on Mother (dependent), solo healing on Gathios, etc.