Apex Legends Item Shop: How It Actually Works

The Apex Legends item shop sells purely cosmetic items — skins, banners, weapon charms — through three separate currencies that each work differently.

The three currencies

• Apex Coins — bought with real money, spent on anything in the store.
• Crafting Metals — earned through play, spent on a rotating crafting selection rather than the full shop.
• Legend Tokens — earned only by levelling up, spent on unlocking Legends rather than cosmetics.

Why direct purchase exists at all

Cosmetics used to sit almost entirely behind loot boxes. That changed after the Iron Crown event in 2019, where getting the headline item required buying through roughly two dozen other purchasable items first, pushing the real cost to around $170. Player backlash led Respawn to add the option to buy a set's best item directly, at a higher fixed price, without the box in between.

What Season 30: Marked changed

The current season introduced Corrupted Attachments, replacing the old gold attachment tier with stronger bonuses that carry a real drawback, and added the Marked Seasonal Pack, built around a Mythic CAR skin with tiers unlocked using Exotic Shards rather than a flat purchase.

The practical takeaway

None of this affects gameplay balance. Every item in the shop is cosmetic, whichever currency it is priced in.