I feel like Morpheus, and that you've realised that how fast you are or how hard you can hit are nothing to do with your physical self 
laaaawl
seriously happy mate, your blaster should feel more powerful and you should have more fun for it now. TS had an automiss bug for a while, twice infact, although I think once it never made it to live cos i kicked off about it.
my best 3 bits of advice for someone going more meleecentric.
1. do not think you have to be in melee, your blasts will be effective in teams and you can work around or with scrappers, you noted this on your post
2. do not try to take alphas without an empath, the SC PS alpha can kill you in a spawn easily, either make sure to not take the alpha somehow, or use lucks, 1 luck vs evens will make enough miss that you hit, more vs higher mobs
3. do not TS unless it is safe to do so, in solo this may mean loss of PBAoE control, in teams this may mean loss of PBAoE taunts or control powers, loss of melee for scrappers and various other nightmare problems (kins come to mind). Use TS in the situations where you know it will cause more benefit to the team that hindrence. (LC is like this but without the damage, if you find yourself stuck it's useful, but im still debating whether to take it live over another hold).
And lastly thanks for actually listening, the reason i try not to riddle my posts with foul language and flames is that i want people to take onboard the actual advice hidden w1th1n 7eH l33t
if your on defiant holla 
EDIT: wasnt until about 35 that i was inducted into the uberness of elec either, but I dontlike that to be too well know around the EU servers . Did you know that Picard failed his 1st test to get into the Starfleet? but only Wes Crusher and a few others knew that lawl
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Yeah.. I'm tending to find that combinations of Havoc Punch, Charged Brawl and Lightning Bolts are enough to dispatch minions fairly quickly (which is obviously of the essence in large groups) and saving TS for the bosses or lts. Better still for bosses especially is Tesla / EF first, THEN use HP and TS, that way you dont pee tanks off with the knockback.
I also hear what your saying with SC and PS - you've gotta judge when to wade in to melee very carefully, because as I've already said, no matter how powerful the set, we are still fundamentally squishy blasters! A couple of times today, I've found myself in the midst of a big mob and watched my health bar move faster than the fuel guage on a Hummer. Best tactic I've found is pick off the straglers on the edges and let the tanks / scrappers take the mainstay of the ag. Only then, when you've just got a coupla lts and a boss left can you more safely use SC and PS and the tactic I mentioned above.
In some ways I'm finding that "squishy" factor makes the character that much more fun to play. You have to choose when to use some powers over others, rather than just blindly running in and clicking each one in turn. My main character is a claws / regen scrapper (Tiger Slash, as pictured in my av), and soloing him even on invinc is so brain numbingly boring because it's so easy!
As for the listening thing, I always think it's worth at least giving what people suggest a try on test (particularly as I had a spare respec) - what's the worst that could have happened? I could have found that your suggestions about TS and SC didn't suit me after all, and I would have been no worse off. No harm in keeping an open mind with these things is what I always say, and I'm glad to say that approach has allowed me to get a lot more out of my character than I originally thought possible
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agree agree etc etc
although as for not wading in, thats if u dont have an empath, i like to think i make an empath's life simpler, when i'm on a team with my blaster there is only ever 1 person who needs to be targeted, and it's me, no one else usually takes much damage, so the blanker has its uses yet . Ask Flash G his opinion on empaths getting boring in the late game or DreamWeaver, or though i try not to annoy her by dying so much, she's female etc, not a good plan
we should wade together
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Sounds good to me.. global is @steelrat70
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"Angelina my love, I'm a genius!"
"Of course you are darling, that's why I married you. Physically, you're rather unattractive"
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Amazing how you can play a toon for 37 levels and only play to half it's potential.
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Thats the best part about this game you can still learn about your toon even if you think you know everything about them, but glad you now see the joy that is an elec/elec blaster