What is the easiest way to obtain an heirloom in Apex Legends?
Is it really all just luck? I have heard that there is a guaranteed heirloom after 500 packs, but I've opened a bunch- I don't know how many. Still, I was wondering what I can do to raise my chances without wasting all my money.
I’ll copy paste my response from an old thread and an answer to your question when is the easiest way to get one.
1. Heirloom shards are guaranteed after 500 packs opened.
2. The (hidden) apex pack counter to 500 resets to 0 if you received an heirloom shard.
3. Event packs from collection events don’t count towards the 500 pack counter. Specific legend apex packs (bloodhound pack etc) count. Thematic packs like this Dark Depths event also count.Myths on heirloom shards
1. Your odds does not stack up the more you open packs. You have an equal amount of luck every pack you open.
2. The odds of getting shards in 1 apex pack is not known. Don’t believe someone if they said you have you have 1 in 500 chance. The odds are not known it’s just listed as less than 1% (it’s way way less than that).
3. Your EA account region does not matter. You will still get the shards at 500 even on whatever region your account is in. There’s a myth that it is impossible to get shards from apex packs if you’re on Belgium.
When is the easiest way to get an heirloom? Whatever method, the easiest way will always involve money.
Easiest Method #1 - Anniversary Event. Apex’s 2nd year anniversary (2021) had this collection event where all the skins are 50% off discount. So if you have enough crafting metals to buy all the epic skins in half the price, I think it would cost around $70 (I might be wrong here) to buy all the remaining skins in the event. If you bought all 24 skins, it will reward you with “free” heirloom shards. Hope that they do the same since I have 7000+ crafting mats for this event.
Easiest Method #2 - Sale events. From time to time Respawn would have apex pack sale events where they would sell a bundle of 20 to 100 apex packs. This is the only time that apex packs are the cheapest.
Like what I’ve said, all these “cheapest methods” would require you to shell out some money if you’re not lucky enough to get one. After 3 years of playing, I just got my first one last Christmas from a bundle containing 20 packs for $10.
How close are you to that 500th pack? You can estimate that by using this apex pack calculator https://mike.zarandona.com/coded/apex-packs-calc/
