Do enemies respond to your resistances?

[Blobbo]

E.g., Fire dragon breathes on you, and you have rF+++ and you resist. Does it from now on just close the distance and apply the beatdown?

I imagine it doesn't do this currently. Would it be interesting if it did?

[celem]

I think the only place you see this is torment. If the player is rTorm then nothing even attempts it.

[duvessa]

Would it be interesting if it did?

i think it would be pretty bad if having rF made orc sorcerers more dangerous instead of less

[Rast]

I think the only place you see this is torment. If the player is rTorm then nothing even attempts it.

So it's better to be a rN+++ garygole of Kiku than to be just immune?

[Zwobot]

I seem to remember that there's also bolt of draining, which isn't used when the player is immune. What about Agony? Is it just that enemies won't use spells which just waste a turn?

[tasonir]

I think the only place you see this is torment. If the player is rTorm then nothing even attempts it.

So it's better to be a rN+++ garygole of Kiku than to be just immune?

More or less, yes. This applies to most of my statue form characters - initially it still does decent enough damage, if you're at full life you can take 50-80 damage from a torment, but once you're in the middle of a fight in extended, you're usually at one third to one half health, and I actually prefer when a brimstone fiend torments me for 15 hp instead of a hellfire which averages 30ish. There aren't too many monsters who can both torment and hellfire/iron shot/LCS/similiar, but if it has some high damage attack and torment, torment is usually a wasted turn for the monster.

[jejorda2]

If everything worked this way, would cantrips be removed? Would smiters never move, but always smite?

[Sandman25]

Briemstone fiends would be especially fun, killing 240HP characters in 3 turns.

[duvessa]

I think the only place you see this is torment. If the player is rTorm then nothing even attempts it.

So it's better to be a rN+++ garygole of Kiku than to be just immune?

Yep. That's not the only thing that does it either, monsters won't cast dispel undead at non-undead players, and I think they won't cast a spell where the tracer does 0 damage either (try to get a shadow fiend to cast bolt of draining as a mummy).