99Leves? Local Leve XP?

[Fanzeron]

... 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)

That's correct. Still the same old recipes, and even though they provide the basic material, the required number of shards still apply. I guess the reduction will come in the upcoming patch.

[Xenor]

That's correct. Still the same old recipes, and even though they provide the basic material, the required number of shards still apply. I guess the reduction will come in the upcoming patch.

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.