So, I'm reading random people's reading lists and stumbled across this post. Hope you dont' mind.
Anyway, I think you should be ok. At least, I don't think it will flag you just for entering the territory, I went farming for stranglekelp on my Horde druid in Westfall and did not get flaged. I believe the Horde NPCs are around level 40, though I don't remember right off hand. At any rate you should be fine to do the Ratchet quests so long as you stay away from the Horde towns.
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Anyway, I think you should be ok. At least, I don't think it will flag you just for entering the territory, I went farming for stranglekelp on my Horde druid in Westfall and did not get flaged. I believe the Horde NPCs are around level 40, though I don't remember right off hand. At any rate you should be fine to do the Ratchet quests so long as you stay away from the Horde towns.