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Slots 1-5 are for [[Implants#Attribute Enhancers|Attribute Enhancers]], and slots 6-10 are for [[Implants#Skill Hardwirings|Skill Hardwirings]].

To use any implant you need at least one level of {{sk|Cybernetics}}, which itself requires {{sk|Science|III}}. The more powerful and expensive implants require more training in {{sk|Cybernetics}}, and often cost significant amounts of ISK, but they can give you indispensable reductions in skill training times, and useful bonuses to your ship's abilities.

Implants can be acquired from [[Loyalty Points|Loyalty Point Stores]] of various corporations, storyline mission rewards, rare NPC loot drops, and of course the Marketplace.

==Using an Implant==

To install an implant, right-click on the implant and choose Plug In; the implant will take effect immediately. If you remove the implant, it is destroyed. You will not be harmed in the process, though it will sting a little.  This is done by going to your Character Sheet, selecting Augmentations, right-clicking the implant in question, and selecting Unplug.

Upgrading a set of implants can be an expensive decision because it destroys the old set. Instead, you could buy a [[Jump Clones|jump clone]], jump to it and install the new set of implants there. Each jump clone has its own set of implants. Only the implants installed in the clone you are currently occupying will have an effect. That way, the old implants are preserved as a backup when your pod is destroyed during PvP or in certain cases, by some NPCs such as Triglavians.

You regularly have to wait 24 hours to use another jump clone once you did. It should also be noted that jumping to a clone installed in the same citadel as your active clone will not effect the 24 hour cooldown timer, which may serve extremely useful when participating in a fleet, as staging systems - such as Stacmon - tend to have friendly citadels, in which a clean clone may be installed. However, you may consider jumping into a clone in the same citadel if you know that you face PvP during your next activities - and jump back afterwards. Continue reading for more [[#Tips and Practical Applications with Jump Clones|tips and practical applications with jump clones]].

==Attribute Enhancers==

There are 5 "simple" implants for each slot: Limited (+1), Limited-Beta (+2), Basic (+3), Standard (+4), and Improved (+5).

===Advanced Attribute Enhancer Reference===

 

Notably, unqualified version were renamed to "High-grade" and given a +4 bonus; some Low-grade implants were renamed to Mid-grade and given a +3 bonus; and for those, a new Low-grade version was introduced.  Note that there is no consistency in which sets have which grades: some sets have High, Mid and Low grades, but some just have Mid and Low, some High and Low, and some High and Mid only.  (See the Implants section near bottom of [http://community.eveonline.com/news/patch-notes/patch-notes-for-kronos Kronos Patch Notes].)

{|border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"

!rowspan="2"|Category

!rowspan="2"|Secondary Effect

!rowspan="2"|Set Name

!colspan="2"|Set Bonus per slot

!colspan="5"|Effect Bonus per slot

!rowspan="2"|Total Effect

!rowspan="2"|Attributes

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|1-5

|6 (Omega)

|1

|2

|3

|4

|5

|----

!rowspan="12"|Scanning/EW

|rowspan="2"|[[File:Icon sensor radar.png|24px|link=]] Radar Sensor Strength

|High-grade Grail

|----

|Low-grade Grail

|----

|rowspan="2"|[[File:Icon sensor ladar.png|24px|link=]] Ladar Sensor Strength

|High-grade Jackal

|----

|Low-grade Jackal

|----

|rowspan="2"|[[File:Icon sensor magnetometric.png|24px|link=]] Magnetometric Sensor Strength

|High-grade Spur

|----

|Low-grade Spur

|----

|rowspan="2"|[[File:Icon sensor gravimetric.png|24px|link=]] Gravimetric Sensor Strength

|High-grade Talon

|----

|Low-grade Talon

|----

|rowspan="2"|Probe Scan Strength

|Mid-grade Virtue

|----

|Low-grade Virtue

|----

|rowspan="2"|[[File:Icon target range.png|24px|link=]] EWAR module optimal range

|Mid-grade Centurion

|----

|Low-grade Centurion

|----

|rowspan="2"|[[File:Icon target range.png|24px|link=]] Mining laser range

|Mid-grade Harvest

|----

|Low-grade Harvest

|----

|rowspan="3"|[[File:Icon velocity.png|24px|link=]] Maximum velocity

|High-grade Snake

|----

|Mid-grade Snake

|----

|Low-grade Snake

|----

|rowspan="2"|[[File:Icon inertia.png|24px|link=]]Agility

|Mid-grade Nomad

|----

|Low-grade Nomad

|----

|rowspan="2"|[[File:Icon warp speed.png|24px|link=]] Warp Speed

|High-grade Ascendancy

|----

|Mid-grade Ascendancy

|----

|rowspan="3"|[[File:Icon armor repairer i.png|24px|link=]] Armor Repair Amount

|High-grade Asklepian

|----

|Mid-grade Asklepian

|----

|Low-grade Asklepian

|----

|rowspan="3"|[[File:Icon armor.png|24px|link=]] Armor HP Amount

|High-grade Amulet

|----

|Mid-grade Amulet

|----

|Low-grade Amulet

|----

|rowspan="3"|[[File:Icon shield glow.png|24px|link=]] Shield Boost Amount

|High-grade Crystal

|----

|Mid-grade Crystal

|----

|Low-grade Crystal

|----

|rowspan="3"|[[File:Icon shield.png|24px|link=]] Shield HP Amount

|High-grade Nirvana

|----

|Mid-grade Nirvana

|----

|Low-grade Nirvana

|----

|rowspan="3"|[[File:Icon ship sig.png|24px|link=]] Signature Radius Reduction

|High-grade Halo

|----

|Mid-grade Halo

|----

|Low-grade Halo

|----

|rowspan="3"|[[File:Icon_shield_transporter_i.png|left|24px|link=]][[File:Icon_remote_armor_repair_i.png|left|24px|link=]]Subcap Remote Rep<br> Cycle Time Reduction

|High-grade Savior

|----

|Mid-grade Savior

|----

|Low-grade Savior

|----

|rowspan="3"|[[File:Icon energy neutralizer i.png|left|24px|link=]] Energy Emission System <br>Cycle Time Reduction

|High-grade Talisman

|----

|Mid-grade Talisman

|----

|Low-grade Talisman

|----

|rowspan="2"|Booster Side Effect Reduction

|Mid-grade Edge

|----

|Low-grade Edge

|----

|rowspan="6" | Entropic Disintegrator Maximum<br>Damage Bonus Multiplier / Damage <br>Multipler Bonus per cycle penalty

|rowspan="2" | High-grade Mimesis

|----

|-----

|rowspan="2" | Mid-grade Mimesis

|----

|-----

|rowspan="2" | Low-grade Mimesis

|----

|-----

|rowspan="3"|Capacitor regeneration speed

|High-grade Rapture

|1%

|2%

|3%

|4%

|5%

| 53.63%

|----

|Mid-grade Rapture

|1%

|2%

|3%

|4%

|5%

| 33.83%

|----

|Low-grade Rapture

|1%

|2%

|3%

|4%

|5%

| 20.03%

===Special Genolution Core Augmentation Set===

==Skill Hardwirings==

Skill hardwirings occupy implant slots 6-10 and allow the user to surpass the bonuses achieved from even level V in most skills by providing up to a 6% bonus to the same attribute as its namesake skill. For example, the slot 6 '''Inherent Implants 'Lancer' Small Energy Turret SE-601''' increases Small Energy Turret damage by 1% (similar to {{sk|Small Energy Turret}}). The code at the end of the hardwiring's name gives a good clue as to what it does, and how powerful it is. Using the example above, SE-601 shows that the implant boosts Small Energy Turret (due to the designation SE), the first number shows that it occupies implant slot 6 and the last number shows that it provides a 1% increase.

==Tips and Practical Applications with Jump Clones==

Some clever things can be done when combining the specialization that implants allows on each clone and the ability to change between these clones - and potentially teleport across many systems or constellations - that jump clones enable. To be more precise, various jump clones with different sets of implants to fit different situations and amounts of risk involved can be swapped between depending on what you want to do that day. A lot of the high end implants are pretty expensive, it isn't unusual to see someone with implants vastly more expensive than their ship. For example, a training clone would have very expensive attribute enhancers, and almost never undock. As such, training skills during offline hours would be best suited to this clone. A low-sec PvP-dedicated clone should have skill hardwirings that enhance their PvP efficacy, and should furthermore be installed in a station in - or bordering - low-sec regions.