Is the Knock spell a replacement for dedicated rogues?

[A Cute Kitty]

I'd like to rotate some of the initial party out and losing the walking vampire masterkey is a little annoying.

[Orion Invictus]

How do you even learn this spell? Is it specific to wizards or something?

[Recjawjind]

Anyone with decent dex is a replacement for a dedicated rogue.

[Wiegs]

It won't disable traps but i can open any lock that isn't magical from a distance

[HozzMidnight]

Knock is great for the DC30 locks. All the other stuff should be fine with guidance/high/dex sleight of hand prof.

[Hex]

It's completely redundant. None of the sleight of hands checks are that high unless it's for a door that gives you a shortcut or something. Any character with decent Dex will do just fine with Shadowhearts guidance cantrip, even she can open 99% of locks and disarm traps with just that. There's also gloves of thievery you can get early on which give advantage on SoH checks making it trivial.

[Lamp]

Nah.

Also even if it were good for both traps and locks you'd be running out of casts constantly. The heavily locked and trapped places have a lot of locks and traps.