Supports like Plague Doctor and Vestal enjoy it especially, being able to do their thing and be accurate in doing so. The only other generic trinket that offers this combo is the Prophet's Eye, and for good reason: every hero wants it. It's tiresome and not fun.The Ancestor's Pistol gives a unique combination of bonuses: accuracy and speed. The point is that it's just stupid that I have to do so in the first place instead of getting on with trying another Farmstead run.

I know how to do it, it's not that hard to manipulate the quest.

So as it stands, the devs have made it a necessity to ♥♥♥♥ around with the Shrieker quest just to play the Farmstead as intended. It has to be a death, because if the hero doesn't die, I can recover, and usually do multiple times over the course of the run.

The whole point of an endless mode is that you push it to keep going until something goes wrong, AKA a hero dies, which means losing trinkets. If they are going to make the deaths just a temporary time-out, then do it properly and time out the trinket loss as well. It's not like they couldn't have just coded in a means to return the trinkets to your inventory when the hero shows up again. That defeats the whole purpose of making those deaths temporary. It punishes players for playing smart and quitting before they lose everything. In other words, I have to metagame and deliberately exploit game mechanics, when the devs just went to great lengths to get people to stop doing that sort of thing with the latest patch. Yeah, my other heroes at less than half health can finish the Thing with no healer, no problem, it will be fine! Tell me, you think that's a realistic option when the Thing from the Stars crits and blights your Vestal, drops her to death's door, and she dies to blight immediately? Yes, I know if you win the battle you get to retrieve the trinkets. Alternatively, during the Farmstead quest I have to suicide the whole group after something goes wrong so that it will be 8 trinkets lost and trigger the Shrieker right away, rather than playing smart and quitting out of the quest at that point. The easiest way to do that is to send them to the Farmstead and lose on purpose, so at least I get those heroes back too, but it's still metagaming. It forces me to deliberately lose 6 more trinkets if I want to get them back, which means 3 more dead heroes. Losing two unique trinkets is far, far worse than losing a hero. It's silly because it breaks the narrative and undermines the whole concept of deaths in the Farmstead being temporary.

Darkest dungeon farmstead trinkets