While I was a little shocked so few demigods had movement-oriented abilities, I think currently the speed boosts on items are right where they should be.

Demigods definitely shouldn't move faster, people just need to know when an engagement is too hot, and learn to retreat earlier.

i agree with zephyrtr on this one people just need to be smart in fights

Have you ever tried using the existing speed items? 15%+ from a favor item then 10%+ from boots and finally 25%+ from the wand of speed and you get an insane speed. (even faster with UB or Sedna abilities)

The demigods definitely aren't too slow especially since you can teleport all over the map anyway...

I really don't see an issue with the speeds. I mean...when someone gets insane movement speed, it stops being fun to fight them cause they can be halfway back home in 4 or 5 seconds.

The only time it bothers me is that first walk-out at the start of the game.

first of all, it only takes like 20 seconds to get from home base to the front line even on a big map like Zikurat or Brothers. not exactly a long time to wait. teleport scrolls can reduce this time effectively to zero as well. second, while it may be a bit more seat of your pants exciting to be dueling against enemy DGs thats not really what you want to be doing most of the time if you're focused on winning the map.

if you're in a part of the map without an enemy demigod contesting it you've got free reign to farm the creeps for exp and gold. you might even be able to solo push some towers depending on your own teams creeps/citadel upgrades and what build of your DG you're using. i hardly find this boring. in fact i find this to be the ideal situation as it means you're directly contributing to winning the map as opposed to just dueling enemy DG's. 

yah, it goes with the territory of only controlling one unit. 

one of the hardest things for me to learn when i started playing Team Fortress 2 was that you really shouldn't be trying to fight at all times. sometimes you have to wait and spend some time doing basically nothing, waiting for better battlefield conditions or for the enemy to walk into a trap you've set. 

i think that Demigod probably has just as much in common (in terms of strategy and pacing, if not gameplay control style) with team based FPS games as it does with any kind of RTS game.