First of all, I'm a rookie at this, so if my question seems stupid just humour me please.

I've installed Armory wallet management on my PC (Windows 10) and it's just running through the "Build Databases" phase with Computing balance box showing one second....
It's been like this for over 24 hours and it's still showing as node offline.
When I installed bitcoin core it was a very large download and took a long time to synchronise databases.
Is this the same ??
I'm wondering if I maybe have a corrupt download of armory or does it just take this amount of time to build databases ??