Quote Originally Posted by UltraSaucy View Post
I have two rolls of pla, and both are much more stringy after switching to cura. One thing I noticed was that Cura has the printer retracting much more than slic3r did.(when watching the printer the extruder turns much more). Will turning the retraction down help?
It would normally be the opposite. In other words, more retraction means you're pulling more filament out of the hot end chamber, so it should be less likely to string along. Cura does default to a hefty amount of retraction since the defaults are optimized for the Ultimaker's Bowden-tube extruder.

Have you tried to compare settings you were using in Slic3r with the settings available in Cura? Maybe something like hop/Z-lift or avoid perimeter crossing is different.