Originally Posted by Shadowbart
Anyway, I'm solo castering it, and didn't wanna budget a strength elixer to bust through on my own, or stand there all day, so tried building a little tower and was able to leap over. =D

To be fair, there's several ways to deal with the blockage as a caster;

1) Explosives. Smokepowder is literally how the game pushes you to deal with the blockage in front of Nere... It works here too.

2) Eldritch Blast. As with many walls and objects, they're weak to Force damage so a nice juicy Eldritch Blast can cut through with little effort.

3) Rothe form. Yes, the Druid form conveys the same bonus Force damage that the NPCs do against specific objects such as those destructible rocks.

4) Ignore it completely. As you may notice, the typical path it takes you on ends up with some scaffolding and a moving platform directly above the area where the gnomes/Nere encounter is... Meaning you can just fly/teleport up there.