Which develop tools do you use in Lightroom?

Same here for most shots plus occasionally I use a small amount of clarity.
If I do a horse show I sometimes use it to nudge the green saturation down a small amount if lots of grass in shot.
I don't know about "Olympus blue" I frequently read about but my Olympus has just a bit too much green for my tastes if it is dominant in the picture.
 
I almost always use the clarity slider, hue/saturation too and then the usual exposure, recovery, fill light and blacks.
 
Exposure
fill
blacks
clarity
hue/sat
mostly those but others on occasion.
 
Exposure, fill, clarity, vibrance, sharpening, noise reduction and grad filter.
 
I find the black slider makes a real difference. It can give you the "velvia" look pretty simply.

Those four main sliders make me feel I'm in control of a digital darkroom, somehow. it feels like you can emulate any film emulsion for any individual image.

I use saturation as well if absolutely necessary, or just saturate one colour. Noise reduction is useful occasionally and i'm starting to get the hang of that. The Grad filter has come in useful on occasion but it seems very crude.

Sharpening too. But I get a real buzz when (if) the 1:1 preview snaps perfectly into focus without it!
 
In addition to the main 4 (which I usually use my dragging the histogram) I generally add a bit of clarity and vibrance. I also usually set a custom WB and sync it to all images in the group. Rather than using the contrast slider I prefer to use the tone curves (again this is usually synchronised).
 
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