2018-06-06 09:40 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.pyc:1262 - Armory Version : 0.96
Your version of Armory is outdated. It doesn't work with the latest Bitcoin Core. The latest version is 0.96.4 and will be required to get it working correctly.
Current website is:
https://btcarmory.com/Releases available for download at:
https://github.com/goatpig/BitcoinArmory/releases(NOTE: DO NOT use:
https://www.bitcoinarmory.com/ It is the old outdated website.)
Also, where is your Bitcoin Core datadir? Looking at your debug logs, it looks like you are running it in a custom location... but Armory was unable to locate it. That might just be the old version not recognising Bitcoin Core properly, but it could indicate that you haven't set up the paths correctly (
https://btcarmory.com/docs/pathing)
I've had a lot of trouble the past few years getting Armory to work correctly. I'm not sure if what I encounter are Windows-specific bugs, but I normally give up after a while. It sounds like what you're experiencing.
I've found (on Windows 10) that if you are running the Bitcoin Core GUI, you
need to have incoming connections enabled for Armory to work properly (otherwise, it will load up to the current number of blocks that Bitcoin Core has synced, but won't get new blocks until you restart Armory). If you don't have the GUI running and just let Armory launch "bitcoind" in the background, then it seems to work fine.