I was hoping you would weigh in so I could also avoid all the "wicking is not right" talk and I know you know your mizers.
I am glad to hear there is another with the same problem because it was so darn strange to see dry cotton even with the juice flow open.
I did already use a pipe cleaner to make sure there was not something blocking the flow.
I am just going to deem this base broken then without changing things around.
Let me know if you know of a sale on any of the V2's and will pull my velocity deck out of this one before I toss it in the woods