spam CC?
here's a decent list of gear that i would use for my CC mage..
head - fishing +100hp
neck - pvp neck or 3 stam one
shoulder - talbar mantle
cloak - tranq cloak (7 stam) or miner's cloak from vc (6 stam)
chest - bloody apron +100 hp
bracer - 4 stam green ones +9 stam
hands - 4/4 of the eagle or magefist +hit rating or 15 agility
belt - 4/4 of the eagle or that 3/8 one (forget the name)
pants - 5/5 of the eagle or darkweave (4/7/6) with nethercleft
feet - fishing boots with boar's speed or bright boots or 4/4 of the eagle with minor speed
rings - seal of sylvanass or seal of wrynn with 1 or 2 blood rings
trinkets - agm/pvp trinket
weapon - that 5 stam one from the blood elf quest +22 intellect with the furbolg rep offhand (10 stam) if you're horde, idk about alliance (would still suggest the furbolg rep offhand)
max stam is the way to go for a CC mage imo, you won't need too much mana for poly/frostbolt/frostnova but you will need health for dealing with hunters and other forms of dps
sry for not knowing the names to all the stuff, been awhile since i played 19