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so basically 1k healing, 10k mana, and 80mp5, right?
Thereabouts. 1000 +healing (on the character sheet, not just from gear) is the standard I hear. Mana should be about 9000-10000; most boss fights in kara are shorter than 25-mans, so your longevity will come from your mana pool--as fights get longer you'll want to transition to more m/5 instead. 80 m/5 should be good for kara, and this is the area most PvP geared toons are lacking.
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does spell crit matter much for shamans like it does for pallies?
Not very much, and not nearly as important as paladins: shamans don't have an Illumination-type talent.
Resto shamans should focus on +heals, +m/5, +INT, and +STA roughly in that order (and depending on type of fight). Anything other than that is gravy.
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i know for pallies, FoL (the smallest heal) is the most efficient for pallies. sounds like the same for you guys.
No no no. It's efficient for pallies because of Illumination. We don't have that, so our efficiency needs to come from downranked Healing Waves. See SkibumOnShiva above me for the math: he's right. Lesser Healing Wave is good for spot heals on trash, a panic heal when NS is on cooldown, and PvP. It should never be a PvE bread-and-butter heal (except on specialty fights like Vael) since the hpm is so inefficient.
The most efficient way to heal for shamans is Chain Heal, by far--assuming it can reach 3 targets. For single-target heals, use downranked Healing Waves (I like rank 8 and 10) on top of a 3-stack of Healing Way (you can use 1-second-cast rank 1 Healing Wave to apply the buff).
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i'll probably be on MT as pally, and have shammy with chain heal cover aoe situations as much as possible.
Indeed. As a pally, you'll be stuck on the MT for the rest of your healing career just since you're so good at it (and have no AoE heals). The shaman opperates best as a Chain Heal spammer.