I thought it was obvious we could still only carry 8 and the allowance was given from the Adventurers Taverns. The NPC made it quite clear...
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You can take 8 "at a time"
then you can finish those and go get 8 more, and so on and so forth
Some of you should read the patch notes next time, you would save yourself a lot of anxiety.
That being said the locals leves still need to be updated to the new recipes. (hopefully its planned for 1.19a, I won't be touching them until then)
Why does that matter? Crafting leves never use your own shards or materials. So who cares what they give you? SP is SP. I imagine they didn't have time to change the leves, plus they have mentioned reworking them to fix the problem of too many rank 1/5 leves and not enough 45/50s. They'll probably do this together and presumably for 1.20 since that's when old recipes will be removed.