Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
These fights are still current content, SE wants you to be using those totems on weapons etc. right now while the content is current, and for you to keep the content queues alive by continuing to farm in the hopes of getting the mount.

Basically the 99 totem thing is staggered to encourage players to do the content when it is no longer relevant. It sucks for you to not have the mount after 99 runs, but the game design is sound.
Do people even carry on past 99 though? I imagine that most people (save the very desperate) stop at 99 anyway. I know a totem buy is coming, and I got all the weapons and accessories I need through those 99 runs (for every job). I disagree that it is sound, The totem buy will stay in long after the droprate has been buffed to the point where you can get it in ten runs, and knowing it's coming people will stop at 99 anyway. All holding the option to buy does is make people who've earned the mount wait for it.