Swapping amulets of faith

[Zhorgal]

Why does swapping an amulet of faith for another remove piety? It has happened to me several times when exchanging a normal amulet of faith for an artifact with faith.

[duvessa]

Because taking off an amulet of faith makes you lose piety, even if you put faith back on afterwards. Preventing you from easily swapping amulets is the entire point.

[PlatinumSpider]

If you are switching from faith to faith you should keep or regain the piety, as long as you take no action between removing one and replacing it with the other.

[ion_frigate]

Lots of items have negative effects upon unwield/unwear, and none of them make any exception for switching to an item of the same type. Why should faith be any different?

[PlatinumSpider]

Why make it an exception at all, have it so you can swap an item of any type that has a negative effect on removal to another of the same type without having the negative effect occur.

[ion_frigate]

As duvessa says, the whole point is to make it costly to swap amulets. Moreover, things start getting weird when you consider properties like *contam and *drain. Do those still trigger if you're swapping to an item of the same base type? If they do, it's weird and confusing to have some unwield effects trigger but not others. If they don't, it provides a ridiculously easy way to avoid such effects.