Augment Your Allies' Power with New Potion Bombs in The War Within

wowhead.com:

In The War Within, Engineers will be able to craft Potion Bombs, powerful external potion buffs that augment small groups of players within range. These Potion Bombs currently come in three different types: DPS, Movement Speed, and Healing.

Using a Potion Bomb is simple — use it as you would any other consumable, choose your target area, and buff your allies while damaging enemies caught in the radius. While Engineers are the only ones able to produce these new support consumables, anyone — even non-Engineers — can use them to help their group.

Blizzard described these new consumables in their recent Alpha Notes for The War Within:

• Potion Bombs are a selection of new items that possess the power budget and share the cooldown of ordinary combat potions and can be used anywhere that potions are allowed. When thrown, they deal a small amount of damage split between all enemies caught in the blast but more importantly provide a small buff to up to 5 allies also caught in the blast. The potency of this buff is the budget of the potion divided by 5 – even if fewer than 5 targets are hit. This is intended to be a considerable potion option for support-oriented players, or those who feel their personal potion for the fight is less impactful than a boost distributed between their allies.

While these Potion Bombs represent an interesting and experimental new take on consumables, they also represent yet another foray into external cooldowns in group play. Spells like Power Infusion have long been the subject of frustration among the player base, and the Augmentation Evoker Class was designed in a way that brings external cooldowns and buffs to the forefront. The sheer power involved with these externals for players makes them required in many instances of high-end play, while a very vocal segment of the player base advocates for their removal altogether.

High-end play in World of Warcraft requires an incredible amount of coordination between large groups