Well, i love battle alchemist and battle priest myself, but i'm not really good at them. Still, that doesn't mean that i can't love and try to use them in my super low rate server in Indonesia. They ended up disastrous, since i tried using Vit instead of Agi, very stupid decision. So i ended up deleting them. Sad, very sad.
I'd never really seen any BP or BAlc before in my server, only FSs which looked very, no, super lame.
Homunculus is like a much useful pet or mercenary to me, though i'd never used any mercs yet, but that's not the point. I don't see why BA need to fore go their homun, just treat them as cute soldiers that'll not disobey any of your order. I'm not daring enough to let them level me, since i afraid they might die at any moment, also that's cheating and i don't like that, but i don't think many does that, huh?