Legendary Implants provide unique and powerful bonuses that replaced the traditional gear-based set bonuses in update 7.0. They are a form of gear that you can equip to gain significant advantages, such as increased damage, new abilities, or defensive buffs. You can equip up to two legendary implants, each containing a set bonus and often providing specific stat boosts. 

Legendary implants can be earned by leveling to level 80 and doing the “Technological Advancement” mission given to you by Lonndar Eadwinn, a blue Twi’lek character who is an Implant Researcher, on the fleet. He will give you a list of missions or activities to complete. They include meeting conquest, flashpoints, dailies, PvP, operations, and more. Here is a full list of missions you can do to earn the 100 charges you need:

• Complete a Personal Conquest – 34 charge
• Complete Flashpoints or Operations via Group Finder – 2 charge
• Complete Flashpoints on Story Difficulty – 2 charge
• Complete Flashpoints on Veteran Difficulty – 6 charge
• Complete Flashpoints on Master Difficulty – 10 charge
• Killing Operations Bosses on Story Difficulty – 4 charge per boss
• Killing Operations Bosses on Veteran Difficulty – 7 charge per boss
• Killing Operations Bosses on Master Difficulty – 8 charge per boss
• Completing a PvP Match – 10 charge
• Completing Daily Area Weekly Missions – 10 charge
• Completing Heroic Weekly Missions – 10 charge

Once you have 100 charges and return to Lonndar Eadwinn, it will unlock a new vendor for you. The implants have an item rating of 326 to start and will go up as you purchase each level of the implant. Right now, implants go up to 340.

The cost to buy and upgrade your Implants for the first time is:

• 60 – Conquest Commendations
• 6,500 – Tech Fragments
• 25,000 – Credits

Three achievements will help you lower the cost of implants. Once you have these, the cost of upgrading is across your entire Legacy.

Once you get the Implant Destiny Achievements, your costs will drop up to that level:

• 60 – Conquest Commendations
• 2,500 – Tech Fragments
• 25,000 – Credits

Note of caution: Make sure you remove any augments from your previous implant before purchasing the upgrade or you will lose the augment.

All implants are restricted to your Original Class and Advanced Class. By default, when you go to buy your implants, the list will be ones you can use on the class/combat style you are currently on. Even if the names and/or effects are the same, you likely can’t use or equip a Legendary Implant that doesn’t correspond to your combat style. All generic Legendary implants are not available to every Combat Style. Basically stated, if it isn’t on the list for your Combat Style in game, it can’t be used by you.

Pay attention to the effects given on the implants rather than just the stats. The effects will give you more bang for your buck as far as being more powerful and better blended to work with your specific builds than the stats. To make up for some of the stat deficiencies or differences, you can use augments and earpieces to change them a bit to better suit your needs.

Click on your class to see what implants are available for you.