User blog comment:Mathmagician/Wall of Flesh Solo Guide/@comment-82.161.49.216-20111220115320/@comment-4674838-20111220191502

Sometimes the safest option is also prohibitively expensive or undesirable, in which case your safe option becomes the next best thing. Example: I personally deemed a star cannon as prohibitively expensive because I didn't want to collect the stars, so I went with my next best weapon choice.