If a monster sees you remove some piece of gear that grants a resistance, it will remove that resistance from its list of remembered resistances and be willing to try attacking you with that adtyp again. This avoids the situation where you put on a ring of cold, get hit with one cold attack, and then can remove it because all the monsters nearby will permanently remember you as being cold resistant (but even after this change a wily hero could still step into a niche and do it without any monsters seeing, so trick them into thinking she's still cold resistant...). The hero could still be resistant if there were multiple sources to begin with, of course, but the monsters will test it and learn that again if necessary. It's a little weird that the monsters can recognize the intrinsic granted by the item being removed, but they display knowledge of unidentified (by the hero) objects in many other circumstances too, so I hope it's forgivable in the pursuit of having them act more cleverly about resuming previously-resisted attacks like this. Another approach that avoids the gear recognition, blanking seenres on any gear change, can result in odd situations like orcs treating their own cloaks as potential sources of many different resistances, which also seems silly.
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