As Apex Legends heads towards Season 8, many players are desperate to unlock Heirloom Shards from the Apex Packs they've been acquiring throughout Season 7.
Heirlooms are some of the rarest items in Apex Legends, here is everything you need to know.
What Are Heirlooms
Heirlooms are some of the rarest items in Apex Legends, with playing only having a very small chance to earn the Shards that are needed to craft them.
To unlock all of the Heirlooms, players will need to put in hundreds of hours into the game.
Here are all of the current Heirloom sets that players can unlock.
- Gibraltar Heirloom Set
- Bloodhound Heirloom Set
- Caustic Heirloom Set
- Lifeline Heirloom Set
- Mirage Heirloom Set
- Octane Heirloom Set
- Pathfinder Heirloom Set
- Wraith Heirloom Set
Gibraltar Heirloom Set
The Gibraltar Heirloom Set was released during the Fight Night Collection Event, which took place between January 5th-19th 2021.
This set contains,
- Like a Rock banner pose
- War Club melee weapon skin
- A unique intro quip
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Bloodhound Heirloom Set
The Bloodhound Heirloom Set was released during the Iron Cross event from Season 2 back in 2019.
This set contains,
- Glory Hound banner pose
- Raven’s Bite melee weapon skin
- A unique intro quip
Caustic Heirloom Set
The Caustic Heirloom Set was released during the Aftermarket event from Season 6 that ran from October 6th-20th 2020.
This set contains,
- Hammer Time banner pose
- Death Hammer melee weapon skin
- A unique intro quip
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Lifeline Heirloom Set
The Lifeline Heirloom Set was released during the Fight or Fright Halloween event from 2019.
This set contains,
- Shock Sticks banner pose
- Shock Sticks melee weapon skin
- A unique intro quip
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Mirage Heirloom Set
The Mirage Heirloom Set was released during the Lost Treasures event from Season 5.
This set contains,
- You Really Love Me banner pose
- Too Much Witt melee weapon skin
- A unique intro quip
Octane Heirloom Set
The Octane Heirloom Set was released during the System Override collection event from Season 4.
This set contains.
- Spin and Flick banner pose
- Butterfly Knife melee weapon skin
- A unique intro quip
Pathfinder Heirloom Set
The Pathfinder Heirloom Set was released during the 2019 Holo-Day Bash event.
This set contains,
- Lights Out banner pose
- Boxing Gloves melee weapon skin
- A unique kill quip
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Wraith Heirloom Set
The Wraith Heirloom Set was released at launch and is the oldest Heirloom in the game.
This set contains,
- Fearless banner pose
- Kunai melee weapon skin
- A unique intro quip
How To Get Heirloom Shards
Heirloom Shards are found in Apex Packs, which can either be earned by levelling up during the season, or they can be purchased from the store.
If you just want to open the free ones, you will receive around 200 of them if you reach level 500 during a season.
Here is when you will unlock Apex Packs are you level up.
- Level 2-20 - Apex Pack every level
- Level 22-300 - Apex Pack every 2 levels
- Level 305-500 - Apex Pack every 5 levels
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Heirloom Shards Odds
Just because you've got a lot of Apex Packs, it doesn't make getting an Heirloom Shards a guarantee, or at least not for a while.
The odds of receiving Heirloom Shards from an Apex Pack is 1 in 500.
This means that if you are really unlucky it could take 2 and a half seasons to unlock enough Apex Packs to get the Heirloom Shards.
If you haven't received Heirloom Shards after 499 packs, you will be guaranteed them on your 500th, but it is extremely unlikely that you'd have to go that long.
You will always receive 150 Heirloom Shards from a pack, the same amount as you need to craft an Heirloom.
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But as of right now there are 8 Heirlooms to unlock, meaning a total of 1200 Heirloom Shards are needed.
This will take anyone from 8, if you are the luckiest player ever, to 4,000 Apex Packs to unlock them all.