Coming back to EQ and trying to get back into understanding a few things. When I get gear I see these positive numbers after the stats in purple, example Str 39 +25 , What does the +25 mean?
In your example, the +25 is a heroic stat. These two websites will explain it far better than I could. https://everquest.allakhazam.com/wiki/EQ:Heroic_Stats https://www.almarsguides.com/eq/gettingstarted/HeroicStats/ Basically, more is better. With the caveat that some stats will obviously be more important for one class over another.