The biggest issue with the totems is that the drop rate is so low that for fights like ifrit it would take around 20 fights for an LS to give everyone in the party a totem. For the moogle, on average, it would be 40 fights. The average person gets one weapon every 10 or so runs, and for everyone who goes 1/36 yeah, I understand where you are coming from. But after doing over 200 runs it evens out eventually. Trust me, you may even go multiple runs with weapons back to back.

With that being said... The totems are near worthless there is a about a 2/7 chance that the person you are giving the tokens to will get the weapon they want in the time it takes for them to collect the tokens and then they will have gone to waste, and I guarantee this is going to happen. Someone somewhere is going to be on their 19th token and then the weapon they REALLY wanted will drop and they caused someone else to lose out on getting the weapon they wanted because everyone has to start all over again to try and collect 20 tokens for the next person in line. The system is absolutely ridiculous.