I always give Leliana lots of rapid fire equipment and set her default mode to "aim" instead of "rapid fire" so she does more damage.

Does rapid fire stack? I was under the impression that equipment bonuses didn't stack. For instance, you can't wear two "increases monetary gains" items and get more monetary gain than you would get from a single item of that sort.

I don't micro-manage. I just don't have the attention span for it. Maybe that's why I can't play on the harder difficulties.