@The_Sakaala The problem with making it only in supply drops is that there might be key supply drops in later rings, in which the vaults are outside the zone.
If gold stuff is so easy to get, why not get some yourself? There are a ton of opportunities to do so, and even if you don’t get gold, you should get some high tier loot. Plus, if you can see a lot of gold in deathboxes, you might as well take it. You must have beaten them, so now you can take their loot. Plus, you are kind of supposed to see gold stuff in later rounds, as the people who have them either die and lose it or they don’t. Even in King’s canyon this would’ve been the case normally, except in times where the person dies to the zone or falls off the map.