Is it just me or are the 2 Rings of Ahzidal useless? After a lot of testing one is terrible and the other is a lie.

The Necromancy ring supposedly makes raised dead explode in ice damage when struck (your raised dead, not your enemy's) but i have been trying to see this effect for a while and nothing. I wear the ring, raise a corpse, and let them fight the enemy. No ice explosions ever

The Arcana ring gives you 2 free spells while wearing it: a Frost spell and a Fire spell but as far as i can tell they are just really weak variants of already existing spells and since magic in Skyrim is already very weak and doesnt scale to level (spellmaking would have fixed this Bethesda) i can find no good reason to wear this ring or use it's spells

Is there some hidden advantage i am missing from these? The armor set is very good and worth wearing but the rings...Ahzidal is supposedly a master Enchanter but his jewelry was amateur at best

Of course not, that would mean mages could have nice things.

It's kind of hilarious that spellcaster unique items actually negate the Mage Armor perk and 90% of the robes either look terrible or aren't even robes at all.