Well, there are three that can be purchased through your guild, but they are costly. The rest need justice or honor points which are very slow to accrue at lower levels. All but the three guild heirlooms stop working at 80, where you have the RAF boost anyway and the heirlooms only save you a few hours. 80-85 is where the guild heirlooms help you out and again you just buy them with gold. 85-90 heirlooms do nothing.
If you decide you want to grind out a set of 5 - buy cloth since any class can wear it and with 5 toons and inflated stats on heirlooms the type or armor and even stat is really irrelevant. I've wasted time and money on all plate heirlooms before and really regretted it.
As far as distributing the heirlooms, any faction, any character, any account - same realm, by mail only. If you have an 85 toon say on alliance on another account, but same realm, they can mail it to any other characters across your battle.net on the same realm.
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