Talk:Shooting Star/@comment-27360648-20180821214114/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180822081138

Some points are not entirely certain from the information in the narrative.

For instance, in Yggdrasil increasing the XP cost increased the number of options you'd get. 10% XP gave one option, 50% XP gave five options. You could spend up to 500% (i.e. five entire levels) to cast wishes in the New World, but it was not clear whether you needed to spend it up front (i.e. before selecting a wish). In Yggdrasil [Shooting Star] eliminated the XP cost entirely and gave an improved wish list (10 wishes rather than a max of 5, with fewer joke wishes), but in the New World the wish is whatever you want but the XP cost can exceed 50%, suggesting that higher level wishes might still cost XP, or might be covered. Alternatively, a wish costing more than 50% XP might use more than one charge.

It just isn't clear so far.

All effects regarding the wish list selection are specific to Yggdrasil, the [Wish Upon A Star] is more like a genuine wish in the New World, whatever you choose. This may be because it is based on something more like Wild Magic.

It is not clear what effect the [Shooting Star] would have after it's charges were expended...it would fairly normal for the ring to simply disappear at that point, like an expendable item. Or it could be rechargeable by some method, for instance, using the World Item Generosity and Avarice. An interesting question, but we can only speculate about the answer (it's worth noting that you could just use G&A to cast [Wish Upon A Star] from stored XP, rather than fooling about with the ring).

50% of your XP bar (potentially costing you a level) was the most you could spend in Yggdrasil. In the New World you can spend up to 500%, probably because that would put you back down to the minimum level required to know the super-tier spell [Wish Upon A Star].

So the wish list in Yggdrasil could only be up to five wishes when using the spell directly rather than with [Shooting Star].

Anyway, it's certainly an interesting spell, because of the seemingly limitless possibilities. As long as Ainz has G&A, it would seem he should be spending a lot of his spare XP on playing with wishes, given the amount of time that has passed, but basically it has never been mentioned again since Vol 3, becoming something of a lost plot thread (like Clementine's body or the Orb of Death).