Although Apex Legends is free to download and play, your only way of earning items for various characters is through Apex Packs. These packs can either be earned by playing the game, or purchased with Apex Coins. In our Apex Legends Packs guide, we'll be providing you with all the information you need to know about the system, including the Apex Pack odds, all the Apex Coin prices, and more.
Firstly, what are Apex Packs? They function as the 'loot boxes' of Apex Legends, offering you rewards that you've otherwise have to grind out the game in order to earn. You'll earn three randomized items per Apex Pack, and these can be anything from weapon or character skins, to character voice lines, or crafting metals, that you can save up to unlock a specific weapon or character skin.
But how do you earn Apex Packs in Apex Legends? You’ll earn an Apex Legends pack for the majority of new player levels you attain, and you level up in Apex Legends through earning XP. According to the official EA website for Apex Legends, you can earn a grand total of 45 Apex Packs over the course of player levels 1-100.
However, since Season 1 of Apex Legends has now launched, there's a brand new way for you to obtain Apex Packs by playing the game. If you purchase the Season 1 Battle Pass, which retails for 950 Apex Coins ($10), you'll access 100 total Battle Pass reward tiers. Sometimes, when you increase your Battle Pass reward tier, you'll be rewarded with an Apex Pack. For a full walkthrough of every reward you'll earn with the new pass, check out our Apex Legends Battle Pass guide.
Apex Pack Drop Rates
Also found on the EA website for Apex Legends is the drop rate for the Apex Packs. The drop rates for Apex Packs are:
Rare or better item: 100 percent.
Epic or better item: 24.8 percent.
Legendary item: 7.4 percent.
Apex Coin Prices
You might know what Apex Packs are, but how much do they cost? You can outright purchase an Apex Pack for 100 Apex Coins, the microtransaction currency of the game. Just below, we’ve compiled a list of all the microtransaction points available for purchase on all platforms.
1,000 Apex Coins - $10.
2,000 (+150 bonus) Apex Coins - $20.
4,000 (+350 bonus) Apex Coins - $40.
6,000 (+750 bonus) Apex Coins - $60.
10,000 (1,500 bonus) Apex Coins - $100.
As of right now, this is absolutely everything that you need to know about Apex Packs found within Apex Legends. Respawn will be constantly making tweaks and adjustments to their Battle Royale game, and if there are any changes to the way this works, we’ll be sure to update this page straight away. For now though, you can head over to our Apex Legends beginner's guide and Apex Legends Guns Guide for more.
There's currently 20 heirlooms in the game, including the mythic skins, and the way that you get these is by opening up APEX. Packs that cost $1 per pack. Now to get an heirloom, you have to get Heirloom Shards out of a random APEX.
Buying 50,000 Apex coins will cost approximately $440 in total; you will need to buy four sets of 11,500 Apex Coins ($100 x 4) and one set of 4,350 Apex Coins ($40). With these five sets of Apex Coins, you will also end up with 350 Apex Coins left over.
Players can now earn a total of 199 Apex Packs related to Player Level rewards at the following cadence: Level 2 - 20: One pack every level (19 Apex Packs total) Level 22 - 300: One pack every two levels (140 Apex Packs total) Level 305 - 500: One pack every five levels (40 Apex Packs total)
Straight up, each Apex pack is 100 Apex Coins which is basically 99 cents. However, if you purchase one of the Apex coin bundles, like the $99.99 bundle, you'll receive bonus coins. Breaking down each bundle, the $99.99 bundle gets you enough coins for 115 boxes which essentially makes the cost per box 87 cents.
Apex packs entice you with possibility and guarantees if you don't get the item within a certain number of packs. They are a scam, but crafted in smart way. Whoever created them certainty knows what they're doing. The battle pass is simply all marketing.
- Players can now pay 16,800 Apex Coins (159.98 USD/127.98 GBP) for all 24 event exclusive cosmetics, and if they collect all 24, they get the heirloom set for no additional cost.
You are guaranteed a heirloom set every 500 packs. Once you get a heirloom set, the counter restarts to 0 and you must open another 500 packs to be guaranteed the other heirloom set. If you get a set earlier than 500, it was pure luck but the counter goes back to 0.
Since you're guaranteed to get Heirloom Shards every 500 packs, you could also just count up your Apex packs to know how close you are to the next one. If you have good self-control, just save up your loot boxes until you have 500 and go crazy opening them.
You get a guaranteed heirloom every 500 packs, and this bad luck protection resets when you open heirloom shards. For information purpose only. Your data will automatically be saved in both your browser and your ALS account if you are logged in.
Each Apex Pack you open has around a 1% chance of containing 150 Heirloom Shards. Respawn has also installed a pity timer, where you cannot open 500 Apex Packs without getting any Heirloom Shards, though you'd have to be incredibly unlucky to only receive 150 Shards in 500 total packs. Looking for more?
This only applies to Rare Packs. Heirloom Shards are guaranteed to drop in the next Pack after 499 Packs are opened without finding any, unless all Mythic items are already owned. Heirloom Shards cannot be found in them. Heirloom Shards are found, the Pack is not consumed.
Apex packs entice you with possibility and guarantees if you don't get the item within a certain number of packs. They are a scam, but crafted in smart way. Whoever created them certainty knows what they're doing. The battle pass is simply all marketing.
They're only meant for a very small group of people, which gives them their valued rarity. If they were to make them cheaper and/or more frequent, they'd loose a lot of their value and players who had spent the $170 to get the previous ones would feel ripped off.
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