Just baught the game through Steam. On Diablo 3 there’s that option to choose the server: Americas, Asia, Europe. How do I do that here? I keep getting random disconnect, just where the hell is the game throwing me into?
I could be wrong here as they may have updated it, but from what I remember you are connected to a server based on your IP address and there’s no way to actually select a server otherwise. The only way around this would be to use a VPN to trick it into thinking you’re connecting from a different location.
No idea where you currently live but people have come up with lists of locations of servers. May not be all of them mind you.
US-West
US-Central
EU-West
Asia-Northeast
South America-West
Australia-Southeast
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Geeze, I can’t find it now but one of the popular D4 streamers was promoting a piece of software that allowed you to select which server to connect too… for any game including Diablo 4. Wish I could remember the name of it.
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id assume its just a software that blocks ip ranges so itll force connect you to some other servers.
i for sure know we used that in diablo 2 for anni runs.
Actually there’s a command you can add to the launcher which can designate what zone you always go to, if someone doesn’t add it here I will come back to this tomorrow and update when at my desktop.
I’m Aussie and do it all the time so I’m on uswest servers otherwise the game is a ghost town down here
Found it.
It says D3 but it works for all battlenet games
Hi all,
We have had feedback that some players wish to manually connect to either the US or ANZ Diablo game servers.
Before we go into the process on how to connect to a specific gamer server, there would only be a few reasons you would wish to do this.
If you are in the rare minority based in ANZ whose IP does not automatically connect to the new Australian game servers.
If you are located outside of Australia and New Zealand and connect to US hardware but wish to try out the Australian servers to see if your latency is improved.
If you are currently playing on ANZ servers but wish to join the larger North American public player pool and you don’t mind the associated higher latency.
First up, make sure your Blizzard game launcher is running and you are logged into the application with your server set to The Americas. This will ensure your client will always be up to date.
********** UPDATE **********
Prior to this post it required a customized shortcut to be made. Now with the updated client you can add the correct strings into the Blizzard app itself, removing the requirement to create a short cut. Think it’s technical? Well it’s really quite simple! Narull has uploaded some screen grabs that make the process easy.
Here is his post:
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Close Diablo III and open the launcher, click the little arrow up the top left and select ‘Settings’:
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In the new window select ‘Game Settings’:
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Tick the box for ‘Additional command line arguments’ and in the new command line put the following:
If you want to always connect to the ANZ Server: OnlineService.Matchmaking.ServerPool=AU1
If you want to always connect to the US Server: OnlineService.Matchmaking.ServerPool=Default
Click ‘Done’ and run Diablo III, BAM done! It’s that simple.
********** Below is the old method that is not required **********
To manually tell the game which server you wish to play on you will need to create a customized shortcut.
Go to your folder that has Diablo III: Reaper of Souls installed.
The default for this on a Windows PC is C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo III
Right click on Diablo III.exe and click ‘create a shortcut’.
Right click on the newly made shortcut and choose ‘properties’.
Go to the Target field, it should say something similar to this:
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo III\Diablo III.exe”
You will need to add one of the commands below after
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo III\Diablo III.exe” in the Target field.
To manually connect to the Australia servers add the line
-launch OnlineService.Matchmaking.ServerPool=AU1
To manually connect to the US servers add the line
-launch OnlineService.Matchmaking.ServerPool=Default
So for example,
if I wanted to make sure I connected to the US hardware, even if I’m in Australia, my shortcut target field would end in:
…\Diablo III\Diablo III.exe" -launch OnlineService.Matchmaking.ServerPool=Default
*Note there is a space between Diablo III.exe" and -launch
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Fantastic there is an official way to change region servers.
I did find what I was thinking of above "https://www.gearupbooster.com/camp/diabloiv/" (Im sure this is just one of several)… But if there is an offical way without added software, do that… def…
Yeah the official way works great, been doing it for years with no issues.
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Hi there, I’m in NZ and using the method above but still getting constant disconnects and rubber banding. 
Anyone find a solution?