Question about ST cost when using a staff occult attack

[Helborn]

Originally Posted by Tolenkar

I am still fuzzy as to whether the physical staff strike counts as a magical attack, or not.

According to Death Test 2 pg 43 #259, Wizard's Staffs are Magical Weapons even before the Immunity to Break Weapon (Staff II).

I was re-reading ITL 18 Staff Spell "Regardless of what the staff looks like – rod, wand, quarterstaff, etc. – it is an occult weapon that does one die of damage (front hexes only) when the wizard points with it. The wizard spends 1 ST and makes a regular die roll to hit. The staff does not have to touch its target in order to deliver its flare of magical energy".

This seems to imply that if the wizard doesn't point, but hits with it as a weapon, that the occult damage does not take 1 ST. This is my ruling in our games.