I did a 2mm x 180mm (dia) disc with no drying and the top surface is about as good as one could hope for.
Also, without drying, I did a random vase with Spiral Vase and Smooth Spiral enabled and while it was not as good as the disc, it was way better than the Hulk model.
The Hulk model had dozens of solid blobs primarily in one region of the model. The vase had three blobs.
Because of the thinness of the vase, you can see holes immediately prior to the blob.
Seems like the filament was balling up on the nozzle tip and not sticking to the wall below it. Then it sticks, and continues as desired.
Disc
blob1
blob2
Proximity
Hulk back
Same roll of filament? You’re “deeper” in to the roll now. That plastic’s moisture level might be different. Those blobs look like melted drops, plastic that balls up on the nozzle and then drops on the model tends to be much rougher/irregular in my experience, anyway.
That’s a big drop of molten plastic. The void immediately to the right is because there’s no plastic in the end of the nozzle anymore, it just got expelled as a big blob. The extruder keeps moving but no plastic is flowing. If the blob was balled up filament, there’d be no void because plastic would still have extruded and filled it. You’d have a lump but no void.
The void itself is not nearly big enough to account for the blob if you assume the extruder was running right to left instead of left to right.
I’m still going with moisture in the filament. 
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did you ever find the issue with this?
Maybe moisture but not 100% convinced. It only ever effected that one print. Have printed other things since, with that same filament and came out fine so?
