User blog comment:Crimson and Darkness/Volume 25 discussion blog/@comment-39.50.56.168-20180611173847/@comment-26345952-20180615022801

Well @B214 that is DxD for you. Making past transformations utterly pointless in favor of the new power up.

Triaina was cool, but became obsolete as the story went further with the CCQ (and never mastering any of its three forms). In other words it went the same route as any chess player, always making their pawns into queens.

The Cardinal Crimson Promotion was cool as the alternative JD, but became the new base form of Issei at volume 22, losing that special charm it had, as well as the chant.

And now the DxD G is the new CCQ of the story, forgetting that he ever had the Triaina to master and the CCQ to balance. And with the new series coming up, we will see something that will surpass the DxD G possibly at the fight with Vali; and we all know that fight is coming since Volume 4, otherwise it will be the worst blue ball we would ever have gotten.