Echoing what everybody else has said - Interaction and Emotion make the game much much easier. Interaction to try and make the best impression you can, Empathy to check your work, Menace to intimidate those who do not already love you into submission.
Gunnery has only had very niche uses for me. In general, it feels like Zorana has access to a lot more physical skills then Elodie did - which made my first few attempts at 'brawn' runs kind of difficult. I didn't know how to balance a more meatheaded Zorana.
Also, just my luck - it felt like every time I was preparing my skills so that I could beat a certain electors quest, they would end up liking me so much that they'd auto give me the vote. No, Lorkas! Stop it! I spent so many turns in wrestling class! Why would you do this to me?